Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themselves for the even greater glory of their gridders. In fact, according to a survey, those in favor now outweigh those opposed 55 percent to 38 percent. Of course, before the project can start, Denver?s city council must permit the Broncos to break their lease on existing Mile High Stadium. To smooth the way, a team lobbyist has been offering Super Bowl tickets to the 13 council members at the nearly impossible to get face-value price of $275, way below the going street rate of $1,000 plus. Last week several members of Denver?s ruling body...
Freshman Dora Gyorffy and senior Margaret Angell led the Crimson with two first-place finishes. Gyorffy won both the high jump and triple jump, and Angell won the mile and the 800 meters. Gyorffy also competed in the long jump, which she had not done for three years...
...earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage. With its enhanced power, the two-seat T-3 can fly 200 m.p.h. and make gut-wrenching turns in which the crew endures up to six times the force of gravity...
...Force investigation concluded that Dostal put the plane into a spin and that Fischer fumbled the recovery because the Air Force had not adequately trained him. The crash report said the engine was running while the plane plunged a mile in 30 sec., in 17 ever tightening spirals, into a snow-covered pasture. Yet witnesses told investigators the plane was silent as it came down. The Air Force grounded the T-3s for a week. And when they resumed flying, spins were banned...
Many T-3 pilots at both Hondo and Colorado Springs believe the plane flies much better in the lower, and heavier, Texas air than in the thin air above Colorado's mile-high plains. Some Air Force safety experts have recommended that the entire T-3 operation be based at Hondo. "The flight school shouldn't be in the mountains," says one such expert. "But Annapolis has boats and West Point has cannon, and so saying you're not going to have planes at the Air Force Academy doesn't sound right...