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...area to the runway one at a time in a long single file, like a string of elephants entering a circus arena. The MLS lets planes head into what is, in effect, a huge electronic funnel whose gaping mouth is 80° wide and 20° high (the ILS glide path is only 6° wide and 1.4° high). With MLS, arriving aircraft can enter from several directions at different speeds, flying various curved approaches toward separate electronic "gates." MLS will thus permit more efficient use of runways by different types of aircraft and will give controllers greater choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New MLS, But Whose? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Despite the State's changing defenses, the second half repeated the first. The 19 points of N.C.'s highpointer, Fly "The Glide" Austin were insufficient as his frustrated team trailed throughout by as much as 24 points. Texas' Jim Krivac was highpoint scorer with 33, and ball control that made basketball look like a little man's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiny Texans Trap Slovenly Wolfpack | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

...pilots who glide at Point Fermin launch themselves by running down the gentle slope that leads to the cliff edge, but long before they reach it, they are airborne. They head out over the water, lose altitude, and circle back to the beach, making long figure eights parallel to the cliffs, riding the natural updrafts that blow steadily from the sea. When they are ready to land they spiral up in the breeze to the cliff edge, turn towards it, and touch down...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...London bridges" patterns. But when the tempos slow down, as they do occasionally, there are some rare images refreshed by the fact that the figures in the distance, those who give the work its continuity, are men. In one, as the two women dance downstage, three of the men glide behind them serenely, like swans in semidarkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Boys and Girls, but Not Together | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...hang-gliders do not glide in the air-space around the North Truro base anymore, at least not without the knowledge that they may be fried like a leg of chicken, or poisoned by potentially fatal doses of microwave radiation. But for a few years, the happy-go-lucky vacationers and beach-combers around North Truro swam, flew, and enjoyed their summers unaware of the fact that intense beams of microwave radiation were travelling through their bodies, much the same way more concentrated microwave frequencies are projected through the food inside brand new microwave ovens...much the same way every...

Author: By David Dahlquist, | Title: The Microwave War | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

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