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Your article on proposed on-board aircraft-collision avoidance systems, "Safety Bubbles in the Sky" [July 6], repeated a common but erroneous allusion to the 1978 San Diego mid-air collision, stating that "a small private plane crashed into a commercial...
...space station, as the Soviets liked to call it, had plenty of amenities for its occupants: 20 viewports, exercise machines for physical fitness and, for the first time in orbit, an on-board television receiver to help relieve the long hours of isolation. The monotony was also broken by the visits of other cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months...
...York Air is aiming to take business away from Eastern with a combination of cheaper flights and better on-board service. Instead of the round-'em-up-and-herd-'em-on shuttle treatment, New York Air will offer a free drink and food. Eastern will be fighting the competition with its guaranteed seat service, which means that any travelers showing up at the gate always get on board. Lorenzo himself took advantage of that convenience last week, when he flew the Eastern shuttle from New York to Washington because he could not wait for a reserved seat. "Good...
...people may sit around the living room for hours, unlike the get-a-cookie-and-run strategy prevalent in the Quad Houses. Jordanites can eat at the Houses on a meal exchange program (since you can eat at the Jordans) and pay less for the same meal as an on-board student--so there...
...Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained," meaning that it has an on-board sanitary system, galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some come with multiple color TVs and air conditioners, CB radios, trash compactors, ice makers, built-in vacuum cleaners, music centers and, in the case...