Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curtain parted to reveal a gleaming white jetliner. It was the A- 320, a 150-seat aircraft that is the new offering from Airbus, the European consortium. For a final touch of pizazz, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, on hand for the debut, sloshed champagne over the plane's nose...
...Airbus 320, which will go into service next year, poses a major challenge to U.S. aerospace firms. The plane will compete in the $4.5 billion- a-year market for short-to-medium-range (up to 3,500 miles) jetliners. The Airbus 320 has already racked up 419 orders from 16 airlines -- the biggest advance sale in aviation history...
...change styles like hats. Invisible, for instance, begins with a fairly straight-forward pop tune, "All I Want To Do Is Fall In Love." From this base, however, Hitchcock takes off and explores country and western ("Give Me A Spanner, Ralph"), 60s psychedelia ("Grooving On An Inner Plane"), experimental noise ("Let There Be More Darkness") and improvised blues-grunge ("Blues...
...lawbooks needed). The Samurai Mathematician (with bows to John Belushi) hacks boards into halves, thirds and fourths for a lesson in fractions. Humphrey Bogus and Bergrid Ingman star in an "edited for television" movie, Cartablanca; at the end of this version, "Nick" decides to leave on the plane, but calculations show that his 223-lb. frame will put the cargo over the weight limit. There are MTV-style music videos, a game show called But Who's Counting?, and a funny continuing feature entitled Mathnet, in which a pair of mathematician-sleuths do a dead-on, deadpan parody...
...down the runway and taken off from Khost, near the Pakistan border, when it was blasted from the sky by mujahedin rebels. The incident, in which 37 Afghan soldiers and six crew members were killed, marked a coming of age of sorts for the mujahedin. Military analysts say the plane was the biggest prize yet claimed by the rebels' new arsenal of U.S.-made Stinger missiles...