Word: geared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigators blamed the accident on the collapse of a knuckle-sized strut attachment bracket in the forward right landing gear-because of "metal fatigue." Federal authorities ordered an inspection of the landing gears on all S-61s. New York community groups renewed their denunciation of the skyscraper service as unsafe, though one Washington official argued that a similar accident at a ground-level helipad might have been no less devastating. At week's end New York Airways resumed flights between three local airports, but operations from the Pan Am Building were suspended pending the outcome of the accident investigation...
...some ways we've got it made. There are so many new weapons and intelligence systems backing us up that I sometimes wonder why we have to do the exercise junk at all. The worst is having to make a six-kilometer forced march with 45 lbs. of gear (including our M-16), move into a defensive position, and hit a number of targets-all in an hour. They tell us the reason is that if we do go into battle, there may be more guys on the other side, so we've got to be better soldiers...
Down at our level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic sensors to fill in any gaps in surveillance -say, where the terrain "blinds" a radar system. They had something like it in Viet Nam to detect troop movements. One of these years, we'll be getting RPVS -remotely piloted vehicles (don't you like all the initials?). That...
...action shifted into high gear yesterday as the other six entrants got down to business...
...Robert Gear and Band--Common Grounds...