Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane were captured and held for several days in Arequipa, Peru, during an uprising. Rickards began to play for time. With the responsibility for the lives of 73 persons aboard the plane, it was a perilous game. Rickards blandly told the gunmen that the 707 did not have sufficient fuel to reach Havana and that he would have to make a refueling stop in El Paso. Leon Bearden readily agreed to make the landing, and moments later the El Paso tower got its first inkling of the drama in the skies, when Rickards radioed a terse message: "We want...
...m.p.h., long-range interceptors comparable to U.S. F-104 and F106 fighters. But one of the Russian planes had a new twist unlike anything in the U.S. hardware field: a liquid-fuel rocket booster under its tail, designed to give it tremendous, straight-up climbing power and speed in a pinch...
...Will. Thanks to the experience of the 1948 airlift, both Berlin and the West are far 'better equipped to face any new Soviet (or East German) blockade. The city's government has stockpiled more than a year's worth of food, fuel and clothing, has recently stepped up the gathering of emergency supplies. The U.S. Air Force, which once saved Berlin with slow-moving EUR-475 and EUR-545, now has five to seven times the airlift capacity of a decade ago, with its swift C-13O turboprops and slow but massive (56,000-lb. capacity...
...From there, they rowed better than two miles to the foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted in the husk, ash-baked potatoes, hamburgers, cold beer (iced in the lake) and hot coffee...
...laboratory to evaluate the data it gathers in ocean-testing its new models. Chris-Craft engineers are experimenting with jet engines for boats. They are also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...