Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flown B-52 support missions in his Phantom Interceptor off the carrier Bonhomme Richard; Ray--who is a doctor, a healer who sometimes cuts off the life support; Ray--who has seen too much useless death and too much useless life; Ray--who in his third decade is divorced and remarried to a woman who is perfect, except he hates her, except he loves another woman named Sister, except she is murdered on the verge of rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful...
...long as 24 years ago. The glider-like plane was conceived in December 1953 by the brilliant Lockheed Aircraft Corp, designer Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, now 70, for one purpose: to gather hard data on Soviet military capabilities. Its mission was to soar beyond the range of any jet interceptor or antiaircraft missile and provide the photographic and electronic intelligence necessary for accurate military assessments...