Word: piloting
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...hero in the cockpit. But journalist William Langewiesche takes a different view of the aborted Jan. 15 flight, which Sullenberger guided safely into the water after the Airbus 320 struck a flock of geese near LaGuardia Airport and lost all power. A Vanity Fair correspondent and former professional pilot, Langewiesche has written the most detailed account yet of the short flight, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. He spoke with TIME about the near disaster, the media's role in shaping perceptions of the incident and the forgotten star of the fateful flight...
Ultimately, though, this is easily the best episode since the pilot. While musically very different from that episode’s inaugural pyrotechnics, “Wheels” succeeds in recreating the same world, a school where everyone’s a loser, or has his or her own secret difficulties, and where characters achieve temporary escape by building communities (the Cheerios, the football team, New Directions), or permanent escape through anti-social derangement (desperate Terri, lonely Sue) or at the least false personalities (Tina retreats behind a stutter, Sue adopts an aggressive mask as a bully). It?...
Overall: A. Spectacular character development all around, and a great job at recapturing the sad-yet-hopeful world of the pilot. After watching this awesomeness, your babies are totally coming out with Mohawks...
...fund's market-based strategy has been tested only in two districts in Tanzania and in a small pilot in Uganda, but the results were encouraging. In Tanzania, the number of families who bought genuine artemisinin combination-therapy drugs jumped from 1% to 44% after one year, and in Uganda, the proportion of people buying the recommended drugs went from 0 to 55%. Nahlen, however, points out that local health infrastructure varies greatly, and success in one place does not necessarily mean success in another...
Hips certainly didn’t lie as participants broke it down to Latin grooves at the Queer Students Association’s (QSA) inaugural queer ballroom dance class last Friday.The pilot class, proposed and instructed by Marco F. Perez-Moreno ’11 and Adrian L. Sanborn ’11, was hosted by the QSA in Adams Lower Common Room.Shoes were kicked aside as dancers prepared for the night’s salsa instruction. Couples spun and swung their hips to the lively Latin beat, following Perez-Moneno and Sanborn’s commands?...