Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following church on Sunday, an Episcopal service at which Prince Philip read from I Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador...
...harder rain fell Monday. At Rockwell International's plant in Downey, Queen and consort each stepped into the cockpit of a space shuttle simulator and played astronaut, making a video landing. The Queen was on automatic pilot; the Prince, who has piloted R.A.F. jets, grabbed the joystick and "flew" freely...
...case, Reagan flew to an air base near Santa Barbara and by helicopter to the local airport, then made the tricky drive up the mountain. Next day he went back down Refugio Road in a caravan of four-wheel-drive vehicles (airlifted from Washington) to meet the Queen, who had taken a Navy bus to Long Beach airport and caught Air Force Two to Santa Barbara. Warned that the Queen's plane was late, the presidential motorcade stopped in its tracks for 19 minutes under a highway overpass. The President's advisers reckoned this was preferable to hanging...
President Reagan flew low over the storm-battered coast north of Los Angeles, not far from his ranch in Santa Barbara, and seemed likely to declare seven counties disaster areas, adding them to the 24 so designated in the wake of the weather's previous rampage...
...funds, Reagan summoned congressional leaders of both parties to a hastily arranged White House meeting last week. After a briefing by Kirkpatrick, Reagan put forward a passionate case for the $60 million in emergency aid. But any support gained in that meeting was imperiled the same afternoon. As Reagan flew to California to greet Queen Elizabeth, a top White House official told reporters aboard Air Force One that the Administration was also considering an increase in the number of U.S. military "trainers," now limited to 55. The aide also hinted that the roles of the trainers might be enlarged...