Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea, I must confess, is not original. Recently, a wild boar attacked a Pakistan Air Force F-16 as it was taking off and, according to UPI, the animal knocked off the nosewheel. Although the pilots ejected safely, the $30 million plane was completely destroyed when it crashed on the runway as a result of the attack...
...draw is money. In Los Angeles and elsewhere, a new form of the long familiar pyramid game, called "Airplane," is luring investors with profits of up to $12,000 on a $1,500 ante -- if they can get on board soon enough. Participants buy into an eight-person "plane," then work their way up to "pilot," and bail out with cash. One Los Angeles player claims her profits flew to almost...
OUGHTA: OLIVER Stone. The direction was awfully slick, especially the combat scenes. I liked the animated fighter plane that zoomed over Tom Berenger's head at the film's climax...
...army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom bomb research beginning with "O.K."; the B-29 pilot who named a plane after his mother, Enola...
...plane, which reportedly had ferried food and other supplies to Libyan forces in Chad, is one of eight American-built carriers Libya bought before Gaddafi expelled U.S. forces in 1970. Libyan radio claimed bad weather had forced the plane down and warned Egypt to return it. Meanwhile Egypt, chary of Libyan troublemakers, withheld a decision on three of the airmen and granted asylum to two of them...