Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black formee cross of West Germany's Luftwaffe on its fuselage, was hurtling over the South German foothills toward the Alps last week when it spun out of control. The pilot managed to eject at about 1,000 ft. and landed unhurt in a tree, but his plane plummeted into the black Bavarian soil south of Augsburg. It was the 100th Luftwaffe Starfighter to crash since the Bundeswehr adopted the hot but unforgiving aircraft...
...designed as a fairweather, high-altitude interceptor into a low-altitude, multipurpose fighter-bomber and tried to fly it in the tricky weather of Central Europe. Another difficulty was that the Luftwaffe's pilots and maintenance men lacked the training and experience to handle the complicated, equipment-crammed plane. Before long, the Starfighter came to be known as the "flying coffin...
...achieve, in a rock context, that exact amalgam of easy natural strength and sure-footed integrity born of a complete command over the medium. (Exciting to think that, before our eyes, the Beatles are doing it all over again-taking rock and roll up to yet another higher plane of cultural and artistic value.) The paramount position that the Beatles hold then in the rock world comes primarily from their unmatched style: one, that is, of boundless energy controlled with breezy authority...
...Polish Plane Hijacked...
According to an official spokesman, none of the other 63 passengers and nine crewmen asked to remain in the west. The plane proceeded to East Berlin, its next scheduled stop on the way to Brussels, Belgium, its final destination...