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Taylor was a messianic figure. It was Taylor who blessed the Crimson's plane before it took off from Massena Airport in upstate New York for Cambridge last year. Despite the rain that filled the sky, the plane landed safely. Bless you, Randy...
...most radical departure is the propeller-driven craft that McDonnell Douglas has demonstrated for customers for the first time. The plane's engine, built by General Electric, contains jet turbines that drive two counter- rotating sets of stubby propeller blades. The new engine, to be put in use by 1992, is as powerful as a conventional jet, but is quieter and saves as much as 40% on fuel consumption...
After his plane touched down at Denver's Stapleton airport last month, Skier Jeff Blumenfeld hurried to the Avis desk and signed up for a rental car at the daily fee of $44. It seemed like an attractive price; for his four-day trip, the New York City executive figured he would pay around $180. But Blumenfeld's final bill came to a more daunting $253.30. Says he: "You go to a rental-car agency, and you don't know what it's going to cost you. They nickel and dime you to death...
...long as she can remember, Gwen Linde wanted to be a pilot. At Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., Linde, 29, is commander of a C-141 transport plane, a mammoth, 75-ton, four-engine workhorse that carries everything from weapons, paratroopers and medical supplies to Bob Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been...
...humor, there is another, less noticed side to Dole: a taciturn quality, almost like the lone gunfighters of the Old West. Aboard his campaign plane, if Dole does not like a reporter's question he will just stare stonily as if he did not hear it, letting the silence linger awkwardly until someone else changes the subject. These days Dole can at least joke about his continuing inability to delegate authority and accede gracefully to the advice of others, even his wife Elizabeth. Despite the success of Dole's off-the-cuff improvisations, this go-it-alone style...