Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Version 2: The scene is an airstrip in Jamastrán, Honduras, recently improved by the U.S. Two armed Americans lift off in a helicopter carrying 36 rockets and a machine gun. It joins three Cessna aircraft in a contra raid on a military school and an electric plant near Santa Clara, ten miles inside Nicaragua. The planes fire 24 rockets, killing a 40-year-old male civilian and three girls. The chopper is shot down, and its three occupants are killed. The Americans were on a combat mission with the knowledge and implicit approval...
...wings are on right; they are supposed to sweep forward. They are mounted at the tail end and pitched ahead at a 35° angle. The configuration increases lift, reduces drag, prevents stall outs, and allows the X-29A to turn on a dime at supersonic speeds. Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks. Indeed, the plane resembles a mallard in full flight...
...m.p.h. or more). But once the plane nears enemy territory, it can dive down to an altitude of about 500 ft. and hop through enemy terrain toward its target. Its wings are mobile, sweeping back during high speeds but extending outward during landings and at low speeds to increase lift...
...Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski's televised debate last week with two former Solidarity members. Most viewers, however, quickly recognized the pair as apostates who had publicly recanted their allegiance to the union during the martial-law period. Nor have Warsaw's claims of liberalization persuaded the U.S. to lift its objections to Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund or to the restoration of Poland's most-favored-nation trading status. Both measures are crucial to the economic health and political stability of the regime...
...switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during 25 years with Henry Dreyfuss Associates, a leading industrial-design firm. At Dreyfuss, he also helped develop an encyclopedic series of guidebooks for designers called Humanscale, which provides data about the dimensions and movements of the human body...