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...pilots made three more efforts to shake their pursuers. Each . time, observers in a Navy E-2C radar plane flying nearby heard the Libyan ground controller order the MiG pilots to jink into potential collision courses with the Tomcats. The MiGs normally carry radar-guided Apex as well as heat-seeking Aphid missiles. While the Aphid homes in on a jet's fiery exhaust, the Apex is effective when launched at a target's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Reaction: The U.S. presses Libya over a nerve-gas plant | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...tape supports additional assertions of administration officials that the two F-14's repeatedly tried to maneuver away as the Libyan fighters pursued them; the pilot of the lead F-14 can be heard counting each time he tries to head away, only to have the "bogies jink back into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pentagon Says Libyan Jets Were Armed | 1/6/1989 | See Source »

DODGE CITY is Hanoi, where a pilot has to JINK (zigzag) to keep from getting zapped from the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Boonies, It's Numbah Ten Thou' | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...Bridal Path. This bucolic bit of Scottish dialogue has to be heard to be misunderstood, but Bill Travers' romp through the heather is a high jink an' diddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Bridal Path. This bucolic bit of Scottish dialogue has to be heard to be misunderstood, but Bill Travers' romp through the heather is a high jink andiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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