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...tremendous advantage over its STOL and V/STOL rivals for interurban hops. The closest runner-up, Germany's Dornier Skyservant, seats only twelve; other STOL-type planes that have begun to enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia's shortest shuttle runway...
...strong but not especially pretty face. She is supposed to have shot a Union soldier who invaded her parents' house in Martinsburg, W. Va. She claimed to have supplied Stonewall Jackson with information that led to a victory at Front Royal. She was a nurse, a courier, a smuggler of currency and, the reader suspects, a pest to both sides. Her several imprisonments were presumably more the result of impudence than real danger to the Union. After the war, she toured the lecture circuit as "the Rebel spy," giving dramatic readings of her "perilous" experiences. In 1900, still lecturing...
William Surface's jacket-portrait reminded me of the face of an Alabama State Trooper I once watched block a quiet, unpublicized attempt at school desegregation by young children. I had been working for The Southern Courier; it was the last thing I remembered from the South; and it happened only three days before I started my freshman year at Harvard. Surface has the same single-minded resolve as the trooper to enforce laws arrogantly for the law's sake...
Measuring the flow of North Vietnamese men and materiel into South Viet Nam is no easy task. The most telling evidence arrives at the Pentagon and the White House in the form of sharp, 9-in.-square photographs ferried by Air Force courier planes from Asia each day. The pictures, showing Ho's men on the move, are the product of the most sustained, highly sophisticated aerial surveillance in military history...
...weight of a retraction system, the landing gear is fixed. To save cabin space, there is no aisle; passengers must climb into their seats through three fuselage doors. To offer performance comparable to STOL (short takeoff and landing) planes such as the $85,000 U.S.-made Helio Twin Courier, the Islander has outsized wings that permit takeoffs in a bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough, the plane has two 260-h.p. Lycoming engines to allow for the customer confidence factor. Measured...