Word: glider
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Particularly alarming for passengers from the Southeast was the occurrence of so many mishaps on Atlanta-based Delta, which has long been one of the most highly regarded carriers. Wags at other airlines in the hotly competitive industry promptly dubbed Delta the "Glider Airline." A spokesman for the company called the episodes an "incredible coincidence of bad luck," and experts seemed to agree. Delta will have to work hard, however, to restore confidence...
...behind the Iron Curtain in almost every type of vehicle, but last week's flight to freedom by a determined Czechoslovak was a first. A 39-year-old agricultural engineer, identified only as Vladimir P., outwitted the Czech air force and winged into West Germany on a homemade hang glider powered by a motorcycle engine...
That night, temperatures fell to an unseasonable 27 degrees , but the wind dwindled to 9 m.p.h. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the clear morning sky formed what glider pilots fondly call "a blue bowl." Even before Challenger's crew, wearing gloves against the chill, crossed the access arm to take their assigned places, NASA's "ice team" had inspected the shuttle and its towering gantry. They decided that there was no danger of any icicles breaking away on lift-off and harming the heat-shield tiles. Just 20 minutes before the scheduled lift-off, they made another check. A Rockwell engineer...
...southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut in a Mercedes with as many as eight bodyguards. Well before the Achille Lauro hijacking, he had a penchant for bizarre and ineffective operations. In 1981 he tried to infiltrate raiders across the Lebanese border into Israel by hot-air balloon and hang glider; they were killed or captured...
Club officials say that their organization is a revival of the Harvard Aeronautics Society, which dissolved in the 1960s. The Aeronautics Society was one of the first flying clubs in the world when it was formed in 1909; not only did it build and fly an airplane and a glider that broke the New England record for altitude and distance, but also organized the Harvard Boston Air Meet...