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...crippled airplane. "We could see all the fuel was spouting out the left side where the engine would be," he said. "And then as he got over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular to the ground, with the left wing facing down and the right wing facing up." As the stricken plane kept descending, the wing slashed a trough through the field, like a farmer driving a plow. Then the craft disintegrated...
Performing the old nemesis as the third dive on her list, Pam fully completed the somersaults in the air and knifed into the water nearly perpendicular. The judges' awards of seven, seven, seven-and-one-half, when multiplied with the dive's DD of 2.3 gave her a very respectable total of 49.45 on the dive which had caused so much frustration in the early season. So much for the bombadier squad...
...GUARDIA. 14.3 million passengers last year. Averages 857 landings and takeoffs daily. Two perpendicular runways, 15 airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 5,803. Accessibility: good. Allow 20 to 35 min. for ten-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($8, plus 750 toll). Buses downtown ($3) every 20 min., from 6:50 a.m. to 1:50 a.m. Irregular limousine service to the suburbs. Helicopters to Kennedy ($23.15) and Newark ($29.63); flights cost less when making certain connections. Parking: sufficient. New, covered, metered parking area convenient for meeting incoming flights. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through...
After a try is scored the ball is placed on a line perpendicular to the goal line and at least 20 yards from the spot where the ball crossed the goal line. "Dave made a heck of a kick from a far corner," a team member said...
...tests. Earth scientists have long known that tremors spread outward in two different types of seismic waves. P waves cause any rock in their path to compress and then expand in the same direction as the waves are traveling. S waves move the rock in a direction that is perpendicular to their path. Because P waves travel faster than S waves, they reach seismographs first. The Russian scientists found that the difference in the arrival times of P and S waves began to decrease markedly for days, weeks and even months before a quake. Then, shortly before the quake struck...