Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline accident occurs, almost anywhere in the world, air-safety teams rush to the scene to begin a painstaking effort to establish the cause-and, where possible, to find ways of reducing the chances of similar tragedies. The probe of last week's collision of two 747 jumbo jets on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands may continue for months, as investigators question witnesses and survivors and study the tapes from the flight recorders that were on board both planes. In our cover stories this week we set ourselves a broader task: not only to piece together...
...inferno had occurred on Los Rodeos' single, fog-shrouded airstrip. Two 231-ft.-long Boeing 747 jumbo jets, each weighing some 700,000 Ibs., had collided?incredibly?on the ground. Taking off down a runway visible for less than a sixth of its length, KLM 4805 (the Rhine River) smashed into Pan American 1736 (the Clipper Victor), taxiing toward the same takeoff point. Roaring at full power, the KLM's hot engines (2000° F.) and massive landing gear crunched through the Pan Am's fuselage with such impact and explosive fire that aluminum and steel parts of both planes were...
...heard they sing a song called "Silent Treatment" that exceeds the decibel level of a Jumbo...
...vehicle designed to orbit the earth, land and fly again was flight-tested-but not alone. As 10,000 people watched, the U.S. space-shuttle orbiter Enterprise soared off a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, while locked tenaciously atop a huge and expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered as gracefully as two such ponderous mating birds could. The vital 2-hr. 5-min. test...
...manages to create a character. But after he spreads some suspicions and turns up a body, the film makers take him off the case. He and his very human rationality are left far behind as the film spirals downward through blood, perversity, communion with the damned and pseudoreligious mumbo jumbo...