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...Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly corrosive atmosphere of the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. "The only difference this time is that . the fuselage floor held," Miller said. "But the fuselage skin on the Aloha flight started its peel-back almost exactly where it did on the Far Eastern ship -- just aft of the cockpit bulkhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plane Was Disintegrating | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Kumamoto, Shoalwater Bay and Olympia. Some varieties will be served raw with a raspberry peppercorn mignonette sauce -- a specialty at Fullers. At the sparkling Cafe Sport, Tom Douglas, 29, sautes oysters with chili spices and turns out fluffy Dungeness crab cakes and seductive broiled Japanese Kasu cod with an "ocean salad" of marinated seaweed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Dining North by Northwest | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...taught a class on celestial navigation for 45 years, was toasted by 25 of her former students at a reunion Wednesday. Many of the alumni said they had applied what they learned in Wright's course to their work as professional astronomers and for a few, to transglobal ocean voyages...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Astronomy Teacher Holds Reunion, Students of Past 45 Years Attend | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...tests, Ethan Nadel, a physiologist at Yale Medical School, verified that the demands placed on the pilot -- the equivalent of running two marathons back to back -- would not exceed the limits of human endurance. Since the wingspan measures 112 ft. and the plane flies just 15 ft. above the ocean waves, even a second's pause would result in a quick dunking. To keep the human engine from sputtering, Nadel, with the Shaklee vitamin company, developed a lemon-flavored cocktail of energy-rich glucose, water and a blend of salts to nourish the pilot throughout the flight. In addition, Daedalus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On The Wings of Mythology | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...cruise will begin at 8:00 p.m., and the boat will leave the harbor at 8:30, Leff said. "It doesn't go out onto the open ocean so people don't have to worry about getting seasick," he added...

Author: By Gia Lee, | Title: Council's Cruise Ship Sails Next Saturday | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

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