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...Force chief of staff announced last week that he is appointing an outside panel to scrutinize how his service investigates accidents. General Ronald Fogleman said the action was sparked by 18 major accidents so far this year and charges by a former top Air Force safety official, reported in Time in May, that Air Force crash probes often are cover-ups done by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants...
During that time, allied military planes conducting ceaseless sorties in the Balkans had been picking up beeper snippets that they thought could be coming from the pilot-an extremely sensitive piece of information that was inadvertently revealed by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, when the general told reporters at a promotion ceremony last Monday that monitors had detected "intermittent" transmissions. "I was dumbfounded he said that," one enraged nato official later declared. "I mean, why not just announce to the bad guys, 'We think he's alive and kicking, and we hope we find him before...
...folding paper airplanes for his young son Gary. Then one day, Kline, an advertising agency art director in New York, stumbled on a radically new design; it flew more stably than any previous model, and a lot farther as well. He showed the airfoil to a pilot friend, Floyd Fogleman, who concluded that Kline had inadvertently discovered "a whole new concept in aerodynamics...
...case, Kline and Fogleman have not let theoretical questions stand in their way. Sensing the commercial possibilities of the wing, the two have spent some $14,000 on research and development. They also came very close to alienating their wives. "When he'd fly that thing he drove me nuts," recalls Jane Kline. "I was forever ducking around the house. Those models were always coming at me." As expected, Gary, now eleven, was solidly behind the project from the beginning. He frequently accompanied his father on test flights to baseball fields and parks, even to his father...
Enthusiastic as ever about the design, Kline and Fogleman would like to license manufacturing rights, possibly to an aircraft company. They are also considering mass-producing the paper wing as a toy. Whatever use they finally make of it, Kline's creation has already achieved a distinction: it was recently granted U.S. patent No. 3,706,430, perhaps the only one ever derived from a paper airplane...