Word: downdrafts
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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...
...course, not all the plungers have emerged winners. Some entrepreneurs saw the sunny prospects of their companies turn stormy in a matter of weeks, and their paper profits vanished as quickly. Other investors got caught in a temporary market downdraft during the second half of 1983. Irrational enthusiasm pushed up the price of some high-technology stocks to 80 or more times their annual earnings, compared with about 16 times earnings for proven blue-chip growth companies like IBM. When reality caught up with greed, a number of fast-rising new issues fell to earth, and the profits of many...
Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens...
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...