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...forearm, my right limb hung almost a foot shorter than my left, the length of a child's arm attached to an adult's body. In a light-green hospital gown, I wasn't groomed for the runway or my date of Jan. 2. My girlfriend, Rebekah Edminster, had flown in from California for a 10-day stint...
...Force has finally decided what to do with its barely flown fleet of 106 training airplanes: Concede that it's high-flying junk...
...resistant and where mistakes continue to occur: on the ground. The deadliest crash in aviation history occurred in 1977 when two Boeing 747s collided in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people. And even the best airlines in the world have had problems on the ground - in 2000 a 747 flown by Singapore Airlines on its way to Los Angeles crashed on takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan, when a pilot headed down what was a closed runway and plowed into construction equipment. Planes don't run into each other in the air anymore because the jetways in the sky and the approach...
Usually they are based around an attitude. Years ago, a friend of mine was flying to L.A., and his girlfriend hadn't flown much. I remember her saying, "I was so excited. I was trying to figure out what I was going to wear on the plane, and I changed my outfit three times." I was 26, and I found that being that excited about something that was so commonplace was kind of engaging. That kind of spirit becomes Ed Grimley [on Saturday Night Live]. If the phone rang, before he answered it, he'd turn to the camera...
...taken shelter from a heavy Israeli bombardment in an apartment building in Qana. The incident remains under investigation, and few details of the actual attack are known. But an Israeli Colonel, who asked to be identified only by his initial A. and who commands a fighter squadron that has flown 1,000 sorties over Lebanon during the past 20 days, spoke exclusively to TIME about the agonizing choices in general that Israeli pilots are forced to make while fighting an enemy who disguises himself among the ordinary Lebanese people...