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...realize just how little time a pilot has to react to a crisis. We tried rudder malfunctions, icing problems, wake turbulence and losing all hydraulic power. In one exercise, pilots are told to point the nose almost directly at the ground and then pull like hell out of the dive. Watching the ground get closer in the Learjet's large cockpit windows was frightening; it felt as if it took forever before we started to climb out. In an emergency, even the best pilots have only a few seconds to do the right thing. Classes like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Your Airline Pilot Ready for Surprises? | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Pippin, either. Like Harry Potter, magic will be in the air during this production, a raucous, flashy musical directed by Jeremy Blocker ’04 and performing in the Ex. The magic runs Dec. 12-15, a wonderfully scandalous gift to students before they take a two-week dive into the Yuletide familial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Theater Preview 2002 | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...TAKE A DIVE After all that sand in Wadi Rum, there's nothing better than a dip in the emerald waters of the Red Sea. And, for scuba or snorkeling fans, the Royal Diving Club in the resort area of Aqaba is the perfect place to combine a quick swim with a chance to spot lionfish, snappers and barracuda in the wreck of the container ship Cedar Bride, which lies 20 meters deep in the warm waters off Rainbow Reef. Read more details at www.jptd.com.jo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...agree as I settled back in my canvas chair, gin and tonic in one hand, up to my ankles in black volcanic sand, peeping through a curtain of banyan leaves at the gentle splendor of sunset. This was Sea World Club, Maumere's premier dive resort: an unpretentious place with neat thatch-roofed bungalows, where sarong-wrapped staff, flashing wide smiles, shuffle along paths paved with blue pebbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living on the Fire's Edge in Flores | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...Take a Dive (underwaterindonesia.com/flores.htm)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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