Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warm welcome to Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, prepared to play host early this week to a summit meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold d'Estaing," he will no doubt be pardoned for having succumbed to an overdose of summitry...
...late 1970s to send, for example, a single spacecraft past Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, using the gravity of one planet to fling the ship toward the next. But Van Allen stubbornly refused to give up. At his suggestion, imaginative "back-room" trajectory experts at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that a corkscrew turn could get Pioneer to Saturn at no extra cost...
...Masai herdsmen looked on in horror, the inevitable finally occurred last week: the first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Seconds after takeoff from Nairobi, Lufthansa Flight LH 540 en route to Johannesburg shuddered violently, then sank tail first from an altitude of less than 200 ft. Lufthansa reported that for reasons still not clear, the leading-edge wing flaps were not in the extended position after takeoff. Thus, the aircraft did not have enough wing lift to climb...
...commercial service. Since the jumbo jet began flying almost five years ago, it has carried 75 million passengers a total of 193 billion passenger miles. By comparison, the smaller Boeing 707 flew 1.5 billion such miles before suffering its first crash in which passengers were killed. Other commercial planes, while extremely safe, also have not done quite so well as the 747. Even with the Nairobi tragedy, it still holds the most impressive safety record in aviation history...
...Gulliver learned to his sorrow-can be catastrophic. Especially in congested shipping lanes, the V.L.C.C.s are simply too big and too inertia-bound to operate safely by current rules of navigation. (Among other things, Mostert urges the establishment of onshore control towers like those now handling flight patterns around jet airports...