Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also been looking for better ways to warn planes of violent wind shear, like the downdraft that caused a Delta L-1011 jet to crash near Dallas last month, killing 135. The FAA is proceeding with research into radar methods that can give better indications of wind shear. And in Tokyo, FAA officials, along with other U.S. experts, have gathered to assist in the investigation of the Aug. 12 crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport Ministry provided...
DIED. Samantha Smith, 13, Maine student whose 1982 letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov asking how he would "help to not have a war" brought her international celebrity as a peace envoy; with her father and six other people in the crash of a commuter plane; in Auburn, Me. Andropov's unexpected reply included an invitation to come and see for herself how much the Soviet people wanted peace. She did, on a much publicized two-week tour of the U.S.S.R. in the summer of 1983. That trip led to TV talk-show appearances, interviews with adults on a children...
Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...
...make a radiator grille: "Henry Royce would be proud to have his name on this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
...just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary: a satellite orbiting at 17,000 m.p.h. would be shattered by a head-on crash with a 35-lb. projectile hurtling 10,800 m.p.h. in the opposite direction...