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...Says he: "I really can't speculate on what may have gone wrong. When you are flying in formation you are not just watching the leader. You watch your instruments, air speed, altitude, the other aircraft and where you are relative to everything else." An Air Force board of inquiry will take weeks to determine the "probable cause," and officers are not ruling out a mid-air collision, though eyewitness accounts contain no hint...
...will be as if Washington and Wall Street were suspended in mid-air, their uncertainties less consequential than the outcome of the next forward pass or the next end run. The ideological differences between George Bush and Ted Kennedy will melt into a secondary realm, only to be replaced with an equally ferocious and nearly as time-honored competition. Harvard will be jeered as the Kremlin on the Charles: Yale will be lambasted as Tory Blue. A sense of unabashed partisanship will grip two academic centers of power that usually strive for balance and objectivity...
Your article on proposed on-board aircraft-collision avoidance systems, "Safety Bubbles in the Sky" [July 6], repeated a common but erroneous allusion to the 1978 San Diego mid-air collision, stating that "a small private plane crashed into a commercial...
DIED. Federico De Laurentiis, 26, son of Movie Producer Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...million mobile air-traffic control center. A state-of-the-art AWACS can, in any weather, track all aircraft and naval vessels (though not trucks or tanks) within 250 miles. A Sentry can stay aloft, at 30,000 ft., for eleven hours-and twice as long with mid-air refueling. As an all-seeing airborne base from which fighter and bomber strikes can be orchestrated, the AWACS has revolutionized aerial combat...