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...realistic sense of flying the shuttle, the two men are spending hours piloting a Boeing 707 to get the feel of a massive aircraft. They fly a nimble Gulfstream II outfitted with thrust reversers and side-force generators, to practice tricky touchdowns. They pilot a jet trainer adjusted to drop with a sudden lurch. The two pilots have also flown mission after mission in a simulator so realistic that three-dimensional views of space and the earth are flashed in the cockpit windows. While testing the pilots, the planners make sure what ever can go wrong does go wrong...
...could not even keep matters straight. Actor Jack Klugman gave his horse a feminine first name, apparently in hopes that Jaklin Klugman would become the first colt to win the Kentucky Derby in drag. Plugged Nickle's chances were rated highly after he won the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park and the Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack, but the odds on his owner's winning a spelling bee were not worth a plugged nickel...
...morning, as the commissioners were packing their bags for their return flight to New York, Ghotbzadeh invited them to the Foreign Ministry to discuss "important new developments." The commissioners reluctantly accepted the invitation; in the meantime they sent their luggage to the airport and instructed the pilot of their Gulfstream jet to be ready for a 3 p.m. takeoff: Instead, Ghotbzadeh talked them into postponing their departure. Less than half an hour before their plane was scheduled to depart, the startling announcement by the student militants was broadcast to the nation...
...State," his hosts last week treated him as if he still held that office. Anwar Sadat sent him from Cairo to Tel Aviv in an official Mystere jet; King Hussein of Jordan dispatched a helicopter to carry him from the Allenby Bridge to Amman; the Saudis sent a Gulfstream II executive jet (with closed-circuit TV) to fly Kissinger, his wife Nancy and his son David, 17, to Riyadh. "What we're doing for Henry," said one Egyptian official, "we normally do only for Presidents and Prime Ministers...
...money," complains Tom Evans of the oil-rich Arab sheiks whose sumptuous private planes are serviced by his Houston-based firm. One of his customers is Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, president of the United Arab Emirates, who paid $10 million in 1974 for a Grumman Gulfstream II, equipped with royal blue morocco-leather seats and gold seat-belt buckles...