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...tough, tough as hell," he says, "and not favor any segment of the aviation community, we are going to gain the respect we deserve." On that point, Butterfield clearly has the firm support of a constituency of nearly half a million Americans -the number that fasten their seat belts daily in U.S. airliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: A Need to Get Tough as Hell | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...wanted neither the long arm of the law nor Detroit to harness me into my seat belt [April 29]. But it was not easy to regain control of my car. First, I had to get rid of the offensive red light that glared "Fasten Seat Belt." I thought this would still the buzzer, but no; luckily, my adrenaline gave me the power to rip out the wiring system. I also managed to dismantle the buzzer that told me the key was in the ignition while the door was open. My wife and I still use our seat belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1974 | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...thoughts about the sail-like canopy, because they feared that the light jet plumes from the command module's thrusters might fog the still functioning solar wings on the telescope mount. As he hung out of the open hatch of the command module, an astronaut would have to fasten the canopy in place while the ship hovered at Skylab's side. The final decision about which technique was to be used was left to the astronauts-the first time that so important a responsibility had been given to a crew in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skylab: The Troubled Mission | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...system at Basel-Mulhouse Airport and received permission to land. Inside Invicta International Airlines' flight "Oscar Papa" were 138 passengers, most of them housewives from neighboring towns in southern England on a package "shopping tour" to Switzerland. They were singing and chatting when they received routine orders to fasten their seat belts and were told: "We will be landing at Basel Airport within ten minutes." Oscar Papa never made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Fatal Fatigue | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...government is now entering an era of the most practical politics South Africa has ever known. The time of speeches, blueprints and fancy flights has gone." The statement could have meant anything, but aides insisted that it was the Prime Minister's way of telling the verkramptes to fasten their seat belts for even bigger changes ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Apartheid: Cracks in the Fa | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

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