Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other screen games use different means to add to the challenge. A race driving game now being test-marketed by Atari projects the view from the cockpit of a Grand Prix car negotiating the hairpin curves of the track at Le Mans. Manning a phony steering wheel, accelerator and gear shift, the player tries to complete the circuit as many times as possible without "spinning out" before the time limit expires. The simulation, complete with the sounds of squealing brakes and revving engines, is so realistic, Atari executives report, that "we've watched guys leaving the wheel with sweat...
...lives with Husband Pat Nugent, their children Patrick Lyndon, 6, and Nicole Marie, 3. But visiting the Texas location of Robert Redford's new movie The Great Waldo Pepper, an aerial barnstorming epic set in the '20s, Luci did some public hell-raising. She hopped into the cockpit of a 1918 plane, donned goggles and let Stunt Pilot Frank Tallman take her out for just a ride-apparently not even a spin, a roll, a loop-trie-loop, a couple of bunts...
Airline employees will bear the greatest burden in the retrenchment. More than 25,000 of the lines' 300,000 pilots, cabin attendants, mechanics, ticket clerks, baggage handlers, plane cleaners and others will be laid off beginning in January. Among the cockpit casualties: ten former Viet Nam P.O.W.s at Eastern and the first women pilots at American and Eastern, all victims of low seniority...
...weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black...
...care of the rest. In all, 122 of the 134 people aboard died, most of them Brazilians. Among the victims were Filinto Muller, president of the Brazilian Senate and head of the ruling party, and two popular musicians, Agostinho dos Santos and José Iglesias. Only those in the cockpit and the first few rows of seats were spared. Of the twelve survivors, eleven were crew members who were stationed at the front of the plane; unlike the passengers, some of them apparently had protective smoke masks. Six other crew members died...