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...pair of F-16s buzzed a Nations Air 727 at 28,000 ft. as it flew from Puerto Rico to New York City's J.F.K. airport. Although the airliner's pilot did not see either F-16 (he learned of their stealthy approach via the blaring alarm of his onboard collision-avoidance system), one of the jets (flown by a male pilot) apparently hugged the airliner's tail for two minutes, while his female partner loitered farther away. Among the 84 people onboard, two flight attendants and a passenger were slightly hurt when they were thrown to the floor during...
...Safety Board. Major General Donald Sheppard, head of the Air National Guard, attempted to put events in a positive light by noting with satisfaction that his pilots--and airline passengers as well--are learning about the sensitivity of the crash-avoidance gear installed on airliners in recent years. Such onboard units "are alerting us to things that happened all the time that we never knew before," he said. "This is good news for us, I believe...
...industry catalogs. GM, for instance, is offering limited radar-based obstacle-detection systems in school buses. GM and Ford now equip their high-end cars with devices that call for emergency help after a crash. And some 4% of all new vehicles are expected to come equipped with onboard navigation systems that can tell drivers where they are by reading an onboard electronic map or the signals from a global positioning satellite system...
...GLOBAL EXPRESS [Made By] Bombardier Inc. [Price] $34 million [Orders] 53 (available late 1998) [Maximum Range] 7,475 miles [Top Speed] 593 m.p.h. [Maximum Altitude] 51,000 ft. [Cabin Volume] 2,077 cu. ft. [Total Passengers] 19 [Celebrity Buyer] N.A. [Options] Double bed; stand-up shower; crew rest area; onboard phone...
...shadows. Experienced riders walk the course twice. Reeve always did it three or four times. "The last thing I remember is that on Saturday morning I went out and walked the course again," he says. "I finished suiting up, got Buck out of his stall, rechecked the girth, hopped onboard and headed out for the warm-up area. The next thing I remember was Wednesday afternoon in the hospital at the University of Virginia...