Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilot and copilot, Don Schlaht and Dave Maher, swivel their helmeted heads, straining to pick up the flashing lights of the other planes, their own faces dimly lit by the soft red glow from the instrument panel. As the minutes pass, tension shows around their eyes. Schlaht begins to think he will have to turn back to base. We are in a plane that can carry more explosive power than was set off by all the participants of World War II. It looks like a flying shark, and is equipped with electronic gadgets that allow it to make a precision...
DIED. Benjamin S. Kelsey, 74, aeronautical engineer, leading test pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general, who in 1929 assisted James Doolittle in the first "blind" instrument takeoff and landing, set a speed record in 1938 when he flew from Dayton to Buffalo at an average speed of 350 m.p.h. in an Army pursuit plane, and helped develop combat tactics for U.S. fighters in World War II; of cancer; in Stevensburg...
...Nicaraguan situation shows what "liberation" by the left means. The Marxist Sandinistas have taken over all military forces, muzzled the bishops, postponed elections till God-knows-when, and have turned Nicaragua into an instrument of Cuban and Soviet foreign policy...
Further exploration of the star or cluster of stars will occur if and when the Space Shuttle--scheduled to take off in April--is put into regular use. The shuttle's telescope will be a better instrument that the satellite for observing R136A, Latham said. "It's possible that we then may be able to tell if it's really one star," he added...
Costs at the Dental School are similar to those at the Med School, but students there must pay an additional $1200 for instrument rental and purchase fees...