Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilot Michael Martin and co-pilot Constantine Kleissaf disappeared for more than a day after talking to lawyers, which made drug and alcohol tests impossible. Martin had flown 737s for only two months. Kleissaf had been at the controls, even though it was his first time in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 and federal regulations require the pilot to take off and fly in bad weather. Next day, after questioning the two, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that Kleissaf had accidentally pushed a button that decelerated the plane. Martin tried to correct the situation manually, then aborted...
...pilot recycling project has recovered 5.14 tons of paper in the last eight weeks from the Kennedy School of Government and the nearby Harvard Institute for International Development, the project director said yesterday...
...fuzzy picture yet. A small firm in Irvine, Calif., Togai InfraLogic, has already achieved several of the goals MITI set for itself, including a fuzzy computer chip that can perform 28,600 fuzzy-logical inferences per sec. (FLIPS). And NASA is experimenting with fuzzy controllers that could help astronauts pilot the shuttle in earth orbit. The results so far, say NASA officials, are encouraging, and there is growing interest at such aerospace firms as Rockwell and Boeing. "The only barrier remaining" to wider use of fuzzy logic, says Kosko, "is the philosophical resistance of the West...
...pilot tried to abort the takeoff for an unknown reason, said Kathleen Bergen, spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration in New York. The plane had been delayed from a 7:30 p.m. scheduled departure, CBS reported...
...Western Europe's plane ride toward market unity in 1992 has finally reached cruising speed, that is due in large measure to the skillful maneuvering performed by the craft's chief pilot, Jacques Delors. It was the shrewd but sometimes prickly Frenchman, shortly after he became the European Commission's President in 1985, who selected 1992 as the target date for eliminating trade barriers among the Community's twelve members. And it was Delors, 64, who conducted a nonstop p.r. campaign on behalf of the plan. His efforts have earned him the nickname "Mr. Europe" and comparisons to the late...