Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rockwell's testimony about its concerns that ice could damage the Challenger made it the second major contractor to express reservations about the cold before the launch, which cost the lives of seven astronauts and destroyed one of four shuttles in America's fleet...
...mystified Canadian and U.S. investigators. Last week, though, the Canadian Aviation Safety Board reported that the crew had underestimated the weight of the plane's passengers and baggage by at least six tons. Spurred by mounting pressure from Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration declared Arrow's remaining fleet of ten DC-8s no longer airworthy because critical replacement parts had not been FAA certified, and the Air Force then suspended Arrow's $21 million military-charter contract. Arrow called the Government's actions "unwarranted...
...referred to Clark Air Base and Subic Bay, the main forward point for the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet...
...Quintet with the Budapest String Quartet. These performances of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Trio in A Minor, Beethoven's Op. 11 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, and Weber's Clarinet Quintet, which date from about 25 years ago, are | distinguished by Goodman's bright, bracing tone and fleet fingerwork. Although the clarinet naturally predominates, Goodman hands off the musical lines just as deftly as he did in a different kind of chamber music, accompanied by Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and the late Gene Krupa. Good musicianship, like gold, is negotiable anywhere...
...shuttle flights do resume, it will take years--whether two, five, six or more is anyone's guess--for NASA to catch up to the flight schedule it had mapped out before Challenger exploded. Three shuttles simply cannot carry out all the missions that had been assigned to a fleet of four. Meanwhile, there is sure to be a renewed, sharp debate about the goals of the U.S. space program, the role of the shuttle and even the perennial issue of manned vs. unmanned space flight...