Word: glides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip side to this is that each crew has its moment in the sun, no matter how poorly it does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...
...change the shuttle's design, vastly complicating the job of building it. The Air Force insisted that the payload capacity be expanded to 65,000 lbs. (the better to carry big spy satellites). NASA also had to extend the orbiter's "cross range" so that it could glide a full 1,200 miles either to the right or left of its original orbital trajectory after re-entering the atmosphere. That would enable a Florida-launched shuttle, which travels about 1,000 miles south of Vandenberg on its first circuit of the earth, to land at the military field...
...minute communications blackout. To slow the descent, computers will order a series of linked S-turns. When the ship reaches a 5.2-mile stretch of dried lake bed numbered Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Columbia will make a 180° turn and begin its final hair-raising glide...
...Shall we, the good and dull of the earth, attempt to compete with the attention getters?" "Hurray for meat loaf!" "People who hang-glide are nuts!" "Yeah, you know what's fun, by God? Petting your dog, tuning up the old Chevy Nova." "More beer!" "Beer here...
...LEAVE AT NIGHT. If you hit the Mass Pike at about 11 p.m., you'll glide through Washington--the last city with any traffic to speak of--at about 6 the next morning. It's clear sailing from there to Ocala...