Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year or more to alter designs, some changes will not show up until the 1968 models. To demonstrate what can be done, New York State is spending $5 million to build and test a "safety car"; its designers are convinced that they can halve injuries caused by a forward crash at an impact speed of 50 m.p.h.-roughly 75% of the accidents that maim or kill...
...just three seconds last June for the U.S. to lose two ace test pilots and more than $700 million worth of aircraft when the Air Force's XB-70 Valkyrie, a supersonic flying laboratory, collided in mid-air with an F-104 Starfighter over the Mojave Desert. The crash occurred during a flight arranged for General Electric, maker of the Valkyrie's YJ-93 engines. G.E. got Air Force officers to approve a photo-shooting session in which the XB-70 flew in close formation with four other planes, all G.E.-powered...
Last week the Air Force issued a report on the tragedy. Its findings: NASA Test Pilot Joseph A. Walker, whose formation flying was rusty, inadvertently allowed the Starfighter he was piloting to drift into the air vortex swirling around the Valkyrie's drooping wingtip. From that moment, a crash was inevitable. Trapped in the raging eddies, the fighter brushed its tail plane against the Valkyrie's wingtip, then pitched up and rolled onto its back, shearing off one of the XB-70's twin rudders as it went. Both planes then plunged, out of control, to earth...
...later exploded in his child's face, he had a breach-ofwarranty action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when...
...show the viewers will see the crime committed, so they know the guy's guilty. That way, nobody gets upset when we shoot him." Most often the TV crook will bite the dust in the usual gunfight finale, but on occasion he may die in an auto crash or fall to his death from a tower or cliff. In short, the good guys will still be beating the bad guys-at least...