Word: flew
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...Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Six people--three cadets and their instructor pilots--have died in three crashes of the T-3 Firefly trainer since the planes began flying there in 1995. The T-3's crash record is all the more startling because from 1964 to 1994, cadets flew the trainer's predecessor, the T-41, without a single fatality. But in 1995, the Air Force Academy said goodbye to the plodding T-41 and its sturdy safety record, replacing it with the muscular...
...quits, we know how to land the airplane and walk away from it," a civilian pilot at Hondo says. "The Air Force guys just know how to bail out when that happens." McPeak, a former F-15 pilot, suggests the fact that all three dead T-3 instructor pilots flew bulky cargo planes before coming to the academy might have contributed to the accidents. "Maybe if you'd had three fighter pilots in there instead of three C-141 pilots, you wouldn't have had the same result...
After Treanor's murder, rumors flew around Belfast that one of the mainstream Protestant paramilitary groups may have provided assistance to the L.V.F. in pulling off its New Year's Eve hit. But leaders of the parties with close links to the Protestant gunmen claim the L.V.F. is acting on its own. As annoyed with Mowlam as they are, these leaders want to isolate the extremists...
...Harvard flew four wrestlers out to the Midwest from Dec. 28-29 to compete in a tournament which draws some the nation's best grapplers...
Then, last Monday, Gore flew into town for a marathon of speeches and meetings designed to get the talks moving at last. In public, Gore said he had urged U.S. delegates "to show increased negotiating flexibility"--a signal that America was ready to cut some sort of deal. Just how far the Administration was willing to go, however, wasn't clear until the very last minute. Even as Air Force Two was landing in Kyoto, Gore was on the phone with White House officials trying to nail down what the strategy should be. They finally agreed that Gore would quietly...