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Some states are reluctant to use the herbicide as an aerial spray because of the chance that it will drift, contaminating nearby crops and livestock. Federal officials claim that the isolation of national forest lands, plus the | containment factor provided by a helicopter's downdraft, minimizes that risk. Others disagree. Says Jay Feldman, head of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides: "There is no aerial application that doesn't involve drift...
...waters with life jackets to rescue their comrades. Helicopters ignored the fire and smoke to hoist men out. Spotting life rafts drifting back into the blaze around the Sir Galahad, four helicopter pilots flew behind the vessel and turned their aircraft into gigantic fans: flying low, they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center at San Carlos Bay. Said an army doctor...
...norm since Congress deregulated the airline industry two years ago. Discount fares like the Super Saver cut ticket prices by up to 55%. For a while, the crowds of new passengers kept earnings up, but the combination of rising fuel costs and recession sent the airlines into a downdraft. Since 1979 the price of jet fuel has jumped from 40? per gal. to 92?, while passenger traffic has slid by 3%. The major carriers, which earned a record $1.2 billion in 1978, have lost a total of $333 million...
...soaring above the summit, trying to land on the slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite...
...airline has been fighting through more turbulence than American Airlines: in the past two years it has been buffeted by two scandals (involving alleged kickbacks from the airline's magazine printers and illegal campaign contributions), a pilot slowdown, the fuel shortage and a financial downdraft that last year brought it a record loss of $48 million. Searching for a new president to steady the controls, chairman C.R. Smith reached completely outside the airline industry and picked a newspaper executive Albert V. Casey, 54, president of the Times Mirror Co. of Los Angeles...