Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Street Without Joy. The U.S. jet flights from Danang marked a break with earlier U.S. practice, in which American flyers and gunners served merely as "advisers" to the South Vietnamese military. For the first time, Americans were flying and fighting on their own, and, as one U.S. navigator-bombardier said, "now we've shown them what...
Under his agreement with Garber's Travel Agency, Sohn had been prepared to charter a prop-jet plane from Boston to London, leaving after commencement and returning during the first week of September. He would have charged $240, compared to the HSA's current peak-season minimum of $269 for a flight to Brussels...
...next year by the U.S.'s Pan American World Air ways, Panair was once South America's proudest and biggest airline. It pioneered the first services to the Amazon basin, expanded throughout the country, carried Brazil's flag to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rome. As the jet age began, Panair added DC-8s and Caravelles to its fleet of Constellations and Catalinas...
Ranger VIII hit the ten-mile target at the correct speed, set itself at the proper angle to the sun and the earth, and kept in tight communication with its ground-control stations. About 17 hours after launch, the command came from its masters at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to prepare for the critical mid-course maneuver. Dutifully Ranger writhed in space, turning its gleaming golden body as it was told. It fired its small rocket engine for 59 seconds, and when it had writhed back again to cruising attitude, JPL scientists predicted that it would hit inside...
...panic along. On the air, the Governor pointed out that the problem was not financial weakness but only a shortage of Hong Kong's local paper currency. To stem the run, the government ordered 5,000,000 British ? 1 notes flown from the Bank of England by chartered jet, imposed a temporary $17.50-a-day limit on cash withdrawals. With another ? 35 million in bank notes scheduled to be flown from London soon, the run subsided by week's end. To dramatize its solvency and calm its customers, one Chinese bank used psychology: it piled a hoard...