Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scobee found his true potential in the skies. After winning his Air Force wings in 1966, he logged more than 6,500 hours of flying time in 45 types of aircraft, ranging from the experimental X-24B to a Boeing 747 jumbo jet to the Caribou C-7 he flew on combat missions in Viet Nam. Scobee entered astronaut training in 1978 and helped fly the 747 that carried the shuttle spacecraft between ground stations. As pilot of Challenger in 1984, he guided the spacecraft so that fellow crew members could retrieve a broken Solar Max satellite, which was repaired...
...Jumbo shrimp--what a concept...
...taken. Beyond a few slender details, the tragedies of British Airtours Flight KT 328 and Japan Air Lines Flight 123 have little in common. But last week's air disaster at Manchester International Airport, in the north of England, coming just ten days after the crash of the JAL jumbo jet, had a numbingly familiar ring: the reports of panicked passengers screaming for help, a plane with a sound safety record lying twisted and charred. The grim toll of the dead, this time, was 54. Miraculously, 83 survived the blaze that engulfed the Boeing 737 shortly after an engine exploded...
After the Korean Air jumbo jet landed at LAX, as the locals like to call their airport, the first instructions over the public address system were given in Korean. "If you have any questions, please ask us. Regardless of your destination, you have to declare baggage and clear customs here. Thank you." Yeon Hee Park and her boys were shown to the proper desk. "I am a little uncomfortable," she said through an interpreter. "Not afraid. I know my husband is here. He will take care of us." Her husband In Wung Park, 37, was nearing the airport about then...
...confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri, 23, on his 600-acre Jumbo Lair spread near Ocala, Fla., which is also home to 90 elephants, three rhinos, a gorilla, 150 snakes, 300 alligators and 400 crocodiles. The animals come in handy for Jones' research projects, which he and his staff conduct with no particular goal. "If I knew what I was going...