Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After news came of the lieutenant's defection, the division quickly mustered a squad and flew it to Japan to study the MIG-25 and appraise its possibilities. For example, the squad will determine what the MIG-25 pilot can or cannot see from the cockpit. (In their first examination of a MIG-21, captured by Israel during the 1973 war, Air Force experts discovered that the pilot had limited rear vision and could not see anything directly above, a vital tip for an opponent in a dogfight...
...experts will also look at the location of the controls to determine if the pilot can handle high-G maneuvers without having his muscles pulled awry in tight turns. They will look at the angle of the seat to see how many Gs the plane itself can sustain and measure the length of the radio antennas to get the range of frequencies the pilots operate on. Fire-control experts will look at the dials and mechanisms to determine what range the pilot must have to lock on to a target. The squad will be probing the electronic-countermeasure capability...
Undramatic Exit. The pilot is at least as valuable as the plane. Apparently bright and willing, Belenko will be able to tell U.S. experts much about the selection, training and flying skills of Soviet pilots. He will also be able to provide invaluable information about Soviet air defenses in eastern Siberia and the MIG-25's strengths and weaknesses...
While that was being done, the skyjackers gave instructions to the pilot, who relayed them to the air controller. A bomb had been placed in a coin locker in the subway station at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Along with it was a rambling 1,600-word "appeal to the American People" and a 2,500-word declaration of independence for the 4.4 million Croatians, who are a fifth of Yugoslavia's population. The terrorists demanded that these be published next day in five major newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles...
...remain drawing-board daydreams. By contrast, the Japanese, who are much more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. is, have sharply stepped up work on such alternatives as nuclear power (twelve plants in operation, eleven under construction, five more in the blueprint stage) and geothermal power (several pilot operations now under...