Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes of tape, the droning sound of a mundane exchange was overwhelmed by the catastrophic explosion, followed by the screams of the victims and the sound of rubble falling. ?We could see things coming down on us,? Klaver said. ?We were all disoriented.? Michael Norfleet, a Marine fighter pilot, told of parking in front of the building moments before the explosion, a few cars ahead of the Ryder truck. When the bomb went off ?it filleted my eye,? Norfleet recalled. Stumbling down six flights of stairs, now blind in his right eye and covered with deep lacerations, Norfleet found...
Women--dressed in fatigues topped off with green scarves--not only drive tanks but also pilot attack helicopters and command mixed-sex battalions. "The women are for real," says Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert at the National Defense University in Washington. "They have a role in combat and a significant role in the organization." Men and women live separately, even when married to each other, in neat, clean, 20-bed dormitories. The men have learned to respect the women's military skills. Says Ali Andelavi, 25, a defector from the Revolutionary Guards who is now an engineer in the rebel...
...most accounts, Captain Craig Button, 32, was a straight arrow, an accomplished pilot right out of Top Gun who had been flying since he was 15--a young man from New York's Long Island who loved cars, motorcycles and skiing, and who was, as a former college classmate put it, "a follow-the-rules type of guy." He seemed to be the last person anyone would have expected to break formation while flying a routine training mission with two other planes, and an unlikely person simply to vanish into the wild blue yonder with an $8.8 million, bomb-laden...
...perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran pilot who flew in three wars, and his mother Joan released a statement on Saturday saying they have both been "active" Jehovah's Witnesses for more than 20 years. Air Force officials say it is more likely that the plane or its pilot was disabled in some way--by a bird...
DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...