Word: midair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement, the U.S. sent 1.5 million gal. of aviation fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties...
...stumbling through a filed somewhere behind the back straightaway when my stomach begins to implode. No sleep for 48 hours: none anticipated anytime soon. Tacos and unchilled Budweisers' swimming in midair. This is The Race...
...disadvantage against Argentina's faster Mirage III-EAs. But in the Falklands, the Mirages have to sacrifice speed as, heavily loaded, they come in low to try to get under the radar. The Harrier fights best low and slow. With its maneuverability, it can stop in midair, hover, veer off sharply in new directions and land on almost any flat surface. Armed with 1,000-lb. cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, the Sea Harrier has an advanced avionics and radar system that allows...
...world are viewing the battle of the South Atlantic as a trial of high-technology weapons, ships and aircraft never before used in combat. Britain's Sea Harrier, a vertical/short-takeoff and -landing (V/STOL) attack plane, is winning high praise for its maneuverability. The plane can stop dead in midair, turn on a dime and leap straight upward to dodge an oncoming enemy missile. The Harrier's limited striking range (288 miles) and maximum speed (736 m.p.h.), however, make it unsuitable for extended fleet protection and vulnerable to missiles. Perhaps greater attention is being given to a new generation...
...that its precise choreography blurs. A theatrical, sinewy Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism. To date, Court is the most...