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Christos Soillis, alias Felix, poised the cowboy boot in midair as he examined the sole. "Shoemaking!" he snorted. "The worst...
...SALT ceiling on weapons systems. The Soviets maintain that the bomber is not a long-range weapon because it cannot fly farther than 7,000 miles. Pentagon strategists argue that Backfire should still be included under the proposed SALT agreement because if based in the Arctic or refueled in midair, the bomber could reach the U.S. To allay Pentagon fears, the Soviets offered to limit the number of Backfires and restrict their mid-air refueling and Arctic basing capabilities. Reflecting Pentagon suspicions about Russian promises, a U.S. strategist called the Backfire proposal "nonsense...
...have to be counted as part of the reduced ceiling, but the Soviets would agree to deploy no more than 200 of the bombers. They would also be required to confine the Backfires' range by not providing any tanker fleet of aircraft to refuel the bombers in midair, nor could the new aircraft be based in the Arctic. This arrangement would, in effect, exempt the Backfires from the Vladivostok accord but give the U.S. an indirect way of limiting them...
Almost every grandiose historical painting, up until the mid-19th century, had in it at least one charging horse--in what was supposed to be the height of its movement: flying in midair with its legs splayed out in front and behind. Then, with the invention of photography and a series of action photographs made by a man named Edward Muybridge, artists and everyone else learned that a horse's legs never did that. Photography ever since has been a major influence on how people and animals are depicted as moving in art, and a new exhibit at the Musuem...
After weeks of investigation, French and U.S. officials believe that they have pinned down the cause of history's worst air disaster: the March 3 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 just outside Paris that killed 346 people. An improperly sealed rear cargo door burst open in midair, and the loss of pressure in the cargo hold caused the plane's still-pressurized passenger cabin to buckle downward into the cargo compartment (see diagram). Passengers began spilling out of the plane, control cables to the rudder and stabilizers were fouled, and the plane crashed into a forest...