Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite recent structural mishaps with McDonnell Douglas' problem-plagued DC- 10 jumbo jet, the aircraft manufacturer plans to add an additional fuel tank beneath the rear engine of an updated version of the plane called the MD- 11. Some startled pilots at Delta Air Lines -- which is buying the new plane -- are outraged that the designers would place 2,000 gal. of combustible fuel right under the same engine that disintegrated last month on a United Airlines DC-10. If the controversial fuel bladder had been on the ill-fated United plane when the engine disintegrated, the pilots...
Delta engineers and McDonnell Douglas say the extra tank inside the jet's horizontal stabilizer will better "trim" the plane in flight and is no more dangerous in the back of the plane than on the wing. "About all you'd get is a leak if an ((engine)) fragment went through that tank," claimed a McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
...that suffering, new ideas had been born, from the technologies of radar, sulfa drugs, jet aircraft and nuclear energy to the concepts of collective security, the Atlantic alliance and the United Nations. New horrors, almost beyond description, now had to be given names: fire storm, radiation, holocaust. But other terms suggested rays of hope: jeep, airlift and the symbol of three dots and a dash: V for victory...
...commercial airliners being maintained properly? A barrage of questions about passenger-jet safety were raised last week in the midst of the busy summer travel season. The Air Transport Association, an industry trade group, reported that U.S. carriers are facing a serious shortage of mechanics even as demand for them is growing. Meanwhile, as if to point up the understaffing in the hangars, several airlines were forced to abort flights because of mechanical problems...
Trump Shuttle President Bruce Nobles said the jet had been in service since January 1970, adding that age was an unlikely factor in the incident...