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...airlines, however, share one key asset: a two-letter code that identifies each airline on flight-reservation computer terminals. Regional lines use the code that identifies their big brothers. For example, Air Midwest's flight from Wichita to Kansas City is labeled EA, rather than AM, on travel agents' computer screens. That is important because the major carriers' codes get priority display in reservation systems and are therefore booked first...
...terrific din of pumps and engines and catapults. The ship was headed into a balmy wind, and a soft mist hung in the night air. Thirteen of the carrier's jets were still out on a routine training run. The pilot of one, an electronic radar-jamming EA-6B Prowler, had his plane a scant two miles aft of the Nimitz, and banked into position for a final approach. But the plane veered critically and crashed into a string of other aircraft packed close together on the carrier's flight deck. Within seconds, the three Marine officers flying...
Official inquiries into the cause of the crash could take as long as six months, and the investigators will lack some evidence in their search for explanations: hours after the accident, the EA-6B and the two unsalvageable F-14s were pushed overboard. Captain John Batzler, the Nimitz's commanding officer, was authorized to jettison the three irreparable aircraft by Vice Admiral George E.R. Kinnear, Commander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, who flew to the Nimitz hours after the crash. The wrecked fighters still carried their loads of unexploded missiles and ammunition, which posed a danger to ship...
...corner of the airport, just off the main runway, stood a trailer converted into the dispatch office of Executive Aviation. EA, its twin-engined carriers and a snaky Lear jet, flew quick-order runs of car parts to GM plants around the country. Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair...
...river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast as the southern pine, a major source of American pulp...