Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consulting firm.) All that stop-and-go travel wasted nearly 3 billion gal. of gasoline in 1984, or about 4% of annual U.S. consumption, according to the latest Transportation Department estimate. Last year planes waiting to take off or circling for a landing used some 500 billion gal. of jet fuel, about 3.6% of 1987's total...
...build, but other remedies for congestion may help in the meantime. The FAA is experimenting with a finely tuned radar that will enable airports to land planes on closely spaced parallel runways, even in bad weather. Some airports are building high-speed runway turnoff lanes so that a jet can move out of the next plane's way before coming to a full stop, thus boosting a runway's capacity. The FAA is exploring the possibility of opening military airfields for civilian use, among them El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, near Los Angeles. Boeing and Bell Helicopter are developing...
Traveling at 350 m.p.h., three MB-339A jets of Italy's ten-member Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) aerobatic team slammed together in a flash of smoke and fire 200 ft. above Ramstein's main runway. One brightly painted red- white-and-green aircraft plummeted to the tarmac, and another crashed in a nearby woods well away from the audience of some 300,000. The third burning jet cartwheeled straight into the middle of an area of concession stands and picnickers alongside the runway, spewing fire and airplane parts over tents, cars, barbecue grills -- and people...
...yelled, 'Oh, God,' and looked over my shoulder and saw nothing but fire," said Antonio Vivona, 29, the youngest member of the team. "For some damned reason Ivo hit Giorgio Alessio, the No. 2 in the left group, who then hit our chief, Mario Naldini." Vivona's jet was hit by flying debris, but he managed to put down on an emergency landing field six miles away...
...whether a West German Defense Minister can decide what is and what is not part of NATO's defense role. But as a NATO diplomat in Bonn noted, "We are in an emotionally charged situation." Nowhere more so than at Ramstein, where the blackened remains of the Italian jet lay crumpled late last week amid abandoned picnic tables, uneaten potato salads and indelible memories of nightmare...