Word: earthbound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guru Ma claims to be the channel through which these spirits speak to earthbound mortals. Despite their warning that the U.S. will suffer a nuclear attack in October this year, "America the Vulnerable," she grumbles, has not even "seen fit to have an ABM system in place...
...model-airplane fanatics who trundled 7,000 tiny planes into the Norfolk area to compete in the National Model Airplane Championships. Known widely as the Nats, the show is the largest, most diverse gathering of its kind on the globe. For nine days these earthbound pilots flew, gabbed, crashed, repaired and lived body and soul in the environment of a hobby-sport that has leaped the Iron Curtain, taken root in China and become one of the fastest-growing leisure indulgences in the free world. The Academy of Model Aeronautics' membership is expanding by 10% a year. The Hobby Industry...
...first Stewartt had a tough job explaining to earthbound environmentalists how Lighthawk might be useful. That changed after a successful four-year fight that led to the shutdown of the smoke-belching Phelps Dodge copper smelter at Douglas, Ariz., a notorious contributor to the West's airborne sulphur-dioxide levels. Now Stewartt, with five salaries to guarantee, two planes to maintain and the costly prospect of buying three more, spends half his time raising money. He has no house, no wife and lives out of a flight...
...there was no fire, no passengers and no plane. The MD-80 that Harry "flew" was really a van-size contraption perched on six spindly legs, one of 20 advanced flight simulators at American Airlines' Fort Worth training facility. Operating 20 hours a day, seven days a week, the earthbound machines prepare thousands of would-be pilots every year for one-engine landings, sudden wind shears and impenetrable fog. The experience is judged to be so realistic that when most trainees finally get to fly a real MD-80, the airplane is on a scheduled flight carrying paying passengers...
...earthbound machine can fully duplicate the dives or turns of a plane in flight. But it turns out that a person does not need to be flying through space to feel as if he were. The human body responds not so much to motion as to acceleration, what the experts call "onset cues." By rapidly extending or retracting its hydraulic legs, a simulator can effectively create the sensation of a sudden pitch...