Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...besides excitement in her son's voice. "Our planes are having a lot of mechanical problems," Pace told his mom from his Air Force Academy dorm last June, four days before he was due home on his summer break. His plane's engine had unexpectedly conked out in mid-flight, forcing the instructor to grab the controls and make an emergency landing. "Sometimes it's scary," Pace said over the phone. "When we land, I'm really sweating." Terri recalls listening to her firstborn in her darkened living room and saying, "It sounds like there are a lot of problems...
...dozens of interviews as well as a review of Air Force documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, suggests that the T-3 is a plane too perilous for veteran pilots, much less beginners, to fly. Its single engine has failed 66 times, nearly half of them during flight or at perilous moments like takeoffs and landings. Its brakes are so poor that the Air Force has banned student solo flights out of concern that a novice can't bring the plane to a full stop without rolling off the end of the runway. The Air Force has grounded...
Adapted from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...
...Mariam" bear witness to the high esteem, higher even than that accorded Jesus, in which Ethiopia's Christians hold the Mother of the Saviour. One woman says this is the day Mary was miraculously transported to Axum. Another says no, this is the day Mary stopped here on her flight into Egypt (a long detour, indeed). It doesn't really matter; the pilgrims believe she is here...
...defense adviser, will take a spin for a week or so on Mir next year. The long-rumored trip is planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space? Simple: his sojourn is the best...