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...according to Navy Secretary John Lehman, "the most capable air-to-air maneuvering aircraft in the world." But last week the Navy announced that its new F/A-18 Hornet fighter-bombers had a design flaw that produces cracks in the twin tail assembly. The planes will be grounded for three or four days while the tail assembly is modified. At least ten Hornets have developed the cracks and will be out of service for a longer period...
...Hornet aboard the carrier U.S.S. Constellation in the fall. Nor has it changed its plans to buy more than 1,300 of the F/A-18s at a cost of nearly $40 billion over the next decade. Pilots, however, have been warned to avoid high-angle attack maneuvers until the design flaw is corrected...
...article "How Does This #%0@! Thing Work?" [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 18] is long overdue. I have watched the quality of instruction books deteriorate for years. The root cause is that manufacturers are cheap. The almost universal flaw in how-to guides is a poor index. When our range top turned into a fireworks display, I checked the mail-order catalogue to see what it would cost to replace the unit. There was nothing in the catalogue index under "cookstoves" or "stoves, cook." In earlier years, catalogues had every conceivable synonymous entry...
...show's most serious flaw is the congenital problem of many docudramas dealing with controversial events: a dogged inscrutability. Remaining neutral on the issue of Hiss's guilt, the show presents a mass of incidents-some important, some irrelevant, some canceling others out-that are engrossing from moment to moment. But the end result is a sort of dramatic entropy that can be frustrating...
...columnists and specialists lag behind the newsroom. The Herald covers business adequately, especially in a weekly section that ranges up to 78 pages, but is uneven in reviewing the arts and undistinguished in writing about lifestyles. Visually it is blocky, and photos are often muddy. Its primary flaw: like many other major dailies, it suggests that being serious precludes having...