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...unusual," commented the Federal Aviation Agency's regional director, Oscar Bakke. "But three at once! I just don't recall anything like it." All of the three planes were making landings in rainy weather. The Pan Am flight, coming in on ILS guidance, apparently strayed from the glide path and came in high and too far down the runway. "Aquaplaning" - a phenomenon in which a thin film of water can delay the point at which a plane's wheels touch the concrete of the run way - is suspected to have been a contributing factor in last week...
Chits for Everything. In the clean, graceful former French colonial capital of Pnompenh, women glide silently in their vivid sampots (floor-length sarongs), while pousse-pousses (pedicab taxis) clog the broad, tree-lined avenues. Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso. From gardens gecko lizards cry "Gecko, gecko, geck-o"-and some consider this the nearest thing to logic one hears in Pnompenh...
...WALLEYE is a nonnuclear, 1,000-lb. glide bomb that is simply dropped from an airplane-just as in World War II. After that the resemblance ends, for Walleye is one of the U.S.'s most sophisticated and accurate weapons. In its warhead it carries a television camera -aimed, of course, at the ground. As Walleye falls, the camera sends a picture of the target area back to a screen in the cockpit. The pilot focuses the target picture on his screen and by remote control locks the Walleye guidance system on the target at the same time. Billed...
...crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted by her lover's new woman, and she pushes the interloper into an icy lake and jumps in after her. The convicts pause to stare, then trudge aboard a ferry to glide away...
...driving, now you're not," said Ground School Instructor Donald Sundin. "But take a plane now, and you've got time to do things. Say you lose an engine at 5,000 feet. Well, you lose maybe 500 or 600 feet a minute, and you glide 1½ miles a minute. That gives you about ten minutes during which you can find a spot to land within a 900-square-mile area." Sundin burned into the students' brains the radio frequency of 121.5 megacycles, the universal "Mayday" channel. "Now," he pointed out, "if something goes wrong...