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...flight, anomalies began affecting the Global Positioning System and communications links on the jets, Air Force officials say. While one pilot was able to contact prime contractor Lockheed Martin during the flight to try to fix the problem, the planes were nevertheless forced to return to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. They forlornly had to follow the KC-135 aerial tankers that were to have refueled them during the trans-Pacific flight...
...dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First Lady Laura Bush watched a replay of the Michigan--Ohio State game onboard during a 36-hour day that saw the couple in Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta and across the international date line on their way to Hickam Air Force Base adjoining Pearl Harbor...
Gordon's latest work--a fine, well-acted film, by the way--is based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr., a former engineer at NASA who grew up in a small West Virginia coal town in the late '50s hoping to pursue a career in rocketry. This was against the wishes of his father, who in the movie says things like, "Quit wastin' time worryin' about Wernher von Braun," and "By golly, you'd find out [about life in the mines] soon enough...
That same Saturday night was the standard party night in Pearl Harbor, not orgiastic but convivial. Hundreds of soldiers and sailors from Schofield Barracks and Hickam and Kaneohe converged as usual on Waikiki Beach to see what was going on at Bill Leader's bar, the Two Jacks or the Mint. Tantalizing Tootsies was the name of the variety show at the Princess...
Other Japanese bombers swarmed over Hawaii's military airfields, Hickam and Wheeler, Kaneohe and Ewa. Dive-bombing and strafing the American planes neatly parked on the runways, they quickly won control of the sky. They wrecked hangars, warehouses, barracks -- as well as the Hickam Field chapel and the enlisted men's new beer hall, the Snake Ranch. And in the midst of all this, a rainbow appeared over Ford Island...