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...best present came when the Queen Mum got her long-standing wish to fly aboard the Concorde. During her nearly two-hour specially chartered flight over Britain, she dined on Scottish lobster and Angus beef and sipped her favorite champagne. Then she was strapped into a seat behind the pilot as he accelerated beyond the sound barrier to 1,340 m.p.h. Mum's word: "Incredible...
...army and loaned nine staffers to teach the contras fighting the Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
...agents repelled the first attack but were ambushed again on the road to the town of Acayucán and eventually used up their ammunition. A day later the bodies of the 17 officers were discovered lying along the banks of the Coachapa River by a helicopter pilot. Some had been tortured. Most had been executed with a bullet in the head. Observed Vicente López Estrada, head of the Veracruz state judicial police: "The drug traffickers are well armed...
...margin. Bob Dylan kept pushing it back, bending it around, like some rock-struck jet pilot always testing himself, testing his craft, punching the outside of the envelope. Dylan took rock 'n' roll way up high where the air is thin and the head gets giddy. Rock has never come back. Bob Dylan has never come down...
...shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, and Pilot Manuel Cervero was nearly home. Cervero was flying a DC-8 cargo jet from Miami to the Colombian capital, Bogotá, a sprawling city of 5 million in the Andes. The plane was cruising at 24,000 ft., 110 miles or ten minutes from El Dorado International Airport. Then, without warning, Cervero and his aircraft ran afoul of one of nature's most destructive phenomena...