Word: nighthawks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most dangerous plane to fly in the U.S. Air Force today isn't the screaming F-15 Eagle, the Baghdad-bombing F-117 Nighthawk or the thunderous B-1 Lancer. In fact, it's not a jet at all but the first plane fledgling pilots fly--the powerful, propeller-driven trainer flown by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Six people--three cadets and their instructor pilots--have died in three crashes of the T-3 Firefly trainer since the planes began flying there in 1995. The T-3's crash record...
...prove-it-to-me scientist but is also capable of deep religious faith. He is as intent on the impression he is making as any politician up for re-election. Yet he appears to be utterly unpretentious, preferring to dress casually in jeans and, when he rides his Honda Nighthawk 750 motorcycle, a black leather jacket. (On one of his motorcycle helmets he sticks decals that keep a running tally of every gene he and his collaborators have tracked down, including the ones responsible for cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease...