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Dorm crew employee Jake R. Murrow '97 said twice as many vacuum cleaners as usual were checked out yesterday. He said he expects even heavier demand for them tomorrow...
...hypothesis is stirring a debate about an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. That dry bit of technical jargon refers to the rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted the Federal Aviation Administration...
...evidence supporting the wake-vortex theory is thin. As Flight 427 approached the airport, it was following a Delta Airlines 727, a heavier Boeing plane that generates a slightly stronger wake. Flight 427 trailed the other jet by 4.1 nautical miles, well within the FAA regulation that requires two planes of such weights to maintain a separation of 3 nautical miles. If the 727 wake did jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB...
...Safety Board's most recent warning about wake vortex, issued in February, concentrates on the turbulence stirred by the heavier 757, whose wake has upset or downed seven planes -- among them a 737. The NTSB called upon the FAA to reclassify the 757 so that other craft must follow at greater distances during takeoffs and landings. The FAA has yet to act. Canada, however, upped the classification of the 757 from "large" to "heavy" earlier this year; Britain made a similar change last year by carving out a new category to accommodate...
...police did not exactly evaporate: they were vanquished by an occupation force that grew heavier faster than they had foreseen. The military junta thought the deal they had struck with Carter really left them in charge of the streets, free to terrorize the populace as usual. The misconception was finally shattered last week after U.S. troops raided the headquarters of the paramilitary FRAPH organization. In the process, soldiers surrounded a police vehicle, hauled the officers out at gunpoint, held them down and handcuffed them...