Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefing and a long preflight check, we finally took off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, leading a "cell" of three planes spaced two miles apart to avoid mid-air collisions. Three hours later, over the Philippines, the green-and-black camouflaged Stratoforts rendezvoused with three KC-135 jet tankers for a 40-minute ballet of mid-air refueling...
...satchel charges. The men penetrated the northern edge of the base at a point where there was no fence. Thai guards responsible for base security flashed the alarm. By that time, however, the intruders had already damaged two planes, an F-4D Phantom fighter bomber and a C-141 jet transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically. Two guerrillas were killed and two were captured. Following the Udorn attack, all other bases in Thailand were put on full alert, and U.S. base...
...magazine that honors success is one itself. After 22 years of publishing, Ebony has a circulation of 1,054,932, almost all of it Negro. It bulges with ads; revenue totaled $7,000,000 last year. Its publisher, John H. Johnson, puts out three other magazines as well: Jet (circ. 453,095), a pocket-size weekly of news tidbits; Tan (121,392), a monthly combination of homemaking advice and love stories; and Negro Digest (40,000), a literary monthly. Since he is also board chairman of Supreme Life Insurance Co. and owns a cosmetics company, Johnson...
...everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went back into effect...
...keep the pressure on until the airlines move prime-time flights into off-hours, a new jetport is agreed upon by New York, and new equipment is promised by the Federal Government. The stall is sending the airlines into tailspins. It costs $10 a minute to keep a 707 jet in the air, and pilots by contract cannot fly more than 80 hours per month. If the slowdown continues, the carriers will run out of pilots and the passengers out of patience...