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...contraption looked like a giant red-and-white kite as it purred across Israel's northern border from Lebanon. Powered by a lawn mower-size engine and a small propeller, the hang glider whirred its way three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...
...intruder, whom even Israeli soldiers credited with great skill, was apparently one of two Palestinians dispatched on the suicide mission. The second landed his glider in southern Lebanon in an attempt to evade gunfire from Israeli security forces, who later tracked him down and killed...
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...