Word: link
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employees, including teachers, health, and utilities workers. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir responded that Israel would block the P.L.O. from assuming those responsibilities. Jordanian officials said there were no plans to revoke the Jordanian passports held by 750,000 West Bank Palestinians or to close the two bridges that link Jordan and the West Bank...
...Pigs fiasco and Kennedy's diplomatic reconciliation with Castro, hoped to force Kennedy's hand. They planned to stage an attempt on Kennedy's life, a near miss. They would plant clues that would point back to Havana. Kennedy would be likely to believe a link to Cuba, because Kennedy had secretly ordered the C.I.A. to consider and research the assassination of Castro. If the plan succeeded, President Kennedy would be tricked into renewing hostilities with Cuba. Somewhere along the line, of course, the plan got out of control, escaped responsible hands, and Lee Harvey Oswald, alone or assisted...
...down on that computational burden, future simulators will use a trick borrowed from the eye itself. Rather than create the entire 360 degrees horizon, they will concentrate their imaging resources on the narrow cone where the pilot is looking at a given moment. Link's new ESPRIT (eye-slaved projected raster inset) system uses an infrared scanner mounted in the pilot's helmet to track his eye movements. Then it projects a detailed, high- resolution picture in the pilot's direct line of sight and a fuzzier, less detailed peripheral image...
...Link's AH-64 Apache helicopter simulator, perhaps the world's most sophisticated, combines mock flight with battle effects so realistic that a visitor needs security clearance to ride it. When a trainee is struck by enemy fire, he actually feels the hit. Indeed, the simulation can be dangerously % realistic. "We had to turn this one down," says Ray McCabe, flight- simulation supervisor at the Army's Fort Bragg. "We had a lot of guys lose teeth or have their nose broken from the impact...
None of this comes without a price. Star Tours took six years to make and cost $32 million. Link's Apaches, at $20 million apiece, cost at least $5 million more than the helicopters themselves. Even so, simulators are a bargain compared with the expense of training on the real thing, not to mention the expense in equipment and human lives when a real-world training mission goes awry. "One of the greatest things about simulators," says Honeywell's Figgins, "is that after the worst possible accident, everybody goes off and has a drink...