Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just after 6 p.m., three A-37 jet fighter-bombers struck Tan Son Nhut airbase, destroying several planes on the ground and causing explosions that rocked Saigon. It seemed most likely that the attackers were South Vietnamese pilots venting their frustration over the endless agony of their country. That, too, seemed to be the reason for an outbreak of small-arms fire in Saigon that soon followed. Every ARVN soldier and policeman in the city seemed senselessly to empty his gun. After 15 minutes the firing sputtered and died. But there was still the concussion of distant bombs from Bien...
Before dawn, the fuel tanker Marias had appeared out of nowhere, like a floating filling station, and the 80,000-ton carrier Forrestal danced into place alongside. The two ships cruised ahead, a scant 140 ft. apart, while the carrier took on engine and jet fuel from two suspended umbilical lines. Meanwhile, three destroyers with the law-firm-sounding names of Sampson, Barry and Miller took turns on the tanker's far side...
Within the year the fleet's battle-experienced pilots, many of them Viet Nam veterans, will be flying two imposing new aircraft: Lockheed's S-3 Viking, which will be the first antisubmarine jet, and the swing-wing F-14 Tomcat, Grumman's new $18 million attack plane, which is to replace the effective but aging Phantom...
...there are too many disturbances due to oversized props or sudden sound effects, it is only because Ibsen's stage directions (for example: "A jet of fire shoots into the air from the yacht, followed by thick clouds of smoke: a hollow report is heard... Gradually the smoke clears away: the ship has disappeared.") demand technical wizardry far beyond the capabilities of the Loeb. Peer Gynt's production staff should have accepted this, instead of burdening the stage with contraptions planned to meet the author's specifications that only sap the play of its dramatic strength...
...explosive ejection severed the elevator-control cables leading to the plane's tall, T-shaped tail. To keep the plane from nosing into a dive, the pilots had to maintain a speed of 325 m.p.h. while turning back for Saigon. But on its landing approach, the giant jet pitched down and crashed...