Word: hangars
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...light breeze blowing, well within NASA's wind limits. The families of some of the seven crew members had already been shown to the runway, assembling for their close-up view of the touchdown. The pit crew that takes custody of the shuttle and shepherds it back into its hangar was standing by to claim Columbia as soon as the crowd cleared. In Mission Control in Houston things were similarly routine. "Many of us came in today marveling at the fact that one of the most difficult things we deal with is weather and we didn't have any weather...
...copper and hung in frames or daubed in paint on the sides of buildings. WHOEVER FIGHTS AGAINST THE TRUTH SHALL BE DEFEATED is one such framed homily, hanging in the baggage hall at Tehran's airport. A short distance away, a blunter sign, painted on the side of a hangar, reads DEATH TO AMERICA...
...maintenance centers last year, bringing the number to 17, and equipped each with $2 million worth of spare parts and a full complement of mechanics. Other airlines have launched new safety programs. P.S.A. began a "no-notice inspection system" last November, in which pilots and maintenance supervisors make unannounced hangar visits to check whether needed repairs have been done. P.S.A. has also installed a cockpit system that projects speed, altitude and other essential data directly onto the lower part of the windshield. The device allows pilots to look straight ahead, rather than down at the control panel, while taking...
...aspiring ace sits there--some might say preposterously--in this cavernous hangar in California, in the cockpit of a $13.5 million plane that will do everything but make coleslaw, and listens like a customer, the ejection detonator between his thighs. Northrop Corp. spent nearly $1 billion to develop the F-20, and has been trying for the past two years to persuade Washington to place an order. Unless the F-20 gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon...
...bomber; past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper...