Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller, lighter, single-engine F-16 is much different-"a fighter pilot's airplane," says Air Force Colonel James Rider, chief of the F-16 test program. At $8 million the F-16 is half as expensive as the big F-15 and much more maneuverable. Although the plane does not have the F-15's speed or payload, it can outmaneuver any other plane in the sky. Among other advances, it has computer-controlled wings that automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching...
Cockpit instruments will be electronic digital readouts. New composite building materials will make the plane much lighter than current aircraft. A top-secret wing design will be more efficient, providing greater speeds and range for less engine thrust; and the engines will use less fuel and make less noise than existing jets...
...Asia). A children's hospital in Memphis has confirmed another. In the majority of cases so far reported, the flu has been relatively mild with many patients recovering in three or four days. At the service academies, the cadets and middies, thanks to their generally topnotch condition, suffered lighter attacks and were making quicker recoveries than would a random sample of average citizens...
...Lions from Columbia were ferocious in the lighter weights. Harvard fell behind, 20-0, during the first five bouts. After Kevin McKenna recorded a pin in the opening match, Columbia's co-captains racked up consecutive major decisions in the 126 and 134-lb. classes...
Harvard grapplers lost three consecutive crucial matches by two points or less after falling behind in the lighter weights. The matmen could not over come a 25-6 Cornell lead despite recording pins in the final two bouts of the evening...