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...marvels, the Osprey has at least one drawback: its price, up to $35 million a plane, is two to six times as much as the price of the CH-53 or Black Hawk helicopters that some officials say could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military: Up, Up and Away | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...fact, the U.S. Customs Service and Coast Guard have more effective aircraft for this job (Black Hawk helicopters and Cessna and Falcon jets) but they need more of them for better coverage. One other practical tactic: the use of tethered balloons with look-down radar (called aerostats). Seven, already authorized by Congress but not yet operational, could cover the border and part of the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Mission Impossible: Seal the Border in 45 Days | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...steals go, I try to be in the right place at the right time," Gustilo said modestly. But the junior, with her long arms and quick hands, has become a great ball hawk...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: It's The Defense That Wins Championships | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Then, like a hawk spotting a squirrel, Anderson banks sharply left and dives. Crammed into a cockpit no bigger than half a phone booth, he has the sensation of "riding on the tip of a pencil" when he wrenches the F-16 sideways, almost upside down. The tank appears below him through his canopy ceiling. For a microsecond the world is turned on its back. Anderson is pulling the stick toward him to "lift" the plane horizontally and down. Simultaneously, he eyes a cockpit screen called a heads-up display. The tank, seen distantly through the screen as if through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...comes to political elusiveness, Dukakis has met his match in Gore. For months Gore had been floundering as he groped to find a rationale for his candidacy more compelling than Georgia Senator Sam Nunn's failure to enter the race. Gore kept trying to identify himself as a hawk almost in the Scoop Jackson mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric was. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Way Gridlock | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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