Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere on board Freelandia's jet is similar to that of a tribal celebration. Vegetarian meals, organic breads, homemade soups, cheeses, and wines and beers are served which go down and out immeasurably better than the cellophane-wrapped, insignia stamped Salisbury steaks of the more constipated commercial airlines...
...newcomer to the intricacies of buying a jet, Moss was swindled out of $45,000, spent another $125,000 on a jet that turned out to be a dud, invested $400,000 in cash, and finally bought a six-year-old DC 8 from National Airlines...
...started catching on, but it turned out that Abbie Hoffman was on board with his two-year-old son america, and he had to be back in the States the next day for his cocaine trial. So the DC 8 headed for Maine and a lobster dinner. As the jet approached Bangor, a confused tower controller radioed: "Freelandia? Uh, who owns this plane?" The pilot replied confidently: "We do." No further comment...
...blue and white Aeroflot TU-154 jet airliner taxied to the far end of the terminal at Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport. From the first-class exit emerged a husky 55-year-old man with a distinctive fringe of red beard. At the bottom of the ramp, a German hostess handed him a single pink rose; he smiled faintly and bowed over her hand. As police held a swarm of newsmen at bay, the traveler got into a Mercedes-Benz limousine that whisked him to the tiny village of Langenbroich, 100 miles away. Arriving at his host's small farmhouse...
Honeywell also produces the Rockeye II antipersonnel bomb. Between June 30, 1972, and June 30, 1973, the Pentagon bought $30.9 million worth of these bombs. They were heavily used on North Vietnamese cities during the heavy bombing of 1972 and early 1973. One jet sortie could release four canisters, each containing 247 Rockeyes, thereby killing and maiming people in an area of 30,000 square yards. Each Rockeye can imbed itself partly underground, so that its explosions injure civilians sheltered below ground. Each missile hurls out high-speed molten steel splinters. These, mixed with rock and dirt from the explosion...