Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST year a TV station in Washington D.C. ran a special report on their news show entitled "Is God Mad At Us?" The series took a look at why there seemed to be so many bad things happening in recent years--droughts, plane crashes, earthquakes. It wasn't a landmark piece of investigative journalism, no exclusive interview with the Big Guy. Instead, it consisted of asking theologians, clergy and disaster victims whether the Second Coming was about to take place. I don't know what the conclusions were...
...grooved his Viper jet through a long, graceful arc in the late summer sky, his forefinger and thumb caressing the plane's stick as if it were a violin. The aircraft's needle nose pointed toward the runway below at the U.S. Navy's Fentress Air Field near Norfolk, Va. Engine open and screaming, gulping in the thick air, the Viper reached max speed of 264 ft. per sec. 20 ft. above the concrete and leveled out for its pass. A faint touch of aileron and the ship rolled on its back. The crowd gasped. Heads swung in unison...
...Throughout the Viper's stunning aerobatics, Baugher stood rooted to the tarmac manipulating a tiny radio that controlled the sleek, alcohol-powered jet, which has a 4-ft. wingspan and a 5-ft.-long fuselage. Baugher was one of 1,139 model-airplane fanatics who trundled 7,000 tiny planes into the Norfolk area to compete in the National Model Airplane Championships. Known widely as the Nats, the show is the largest, most diverse gathering of its kind on the globe. For nine days these earthbound pilots flew, gabbed, crashed, repaired and lived body and soul in the environment...
...those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending it 125 ft. high, its miniature control flaps guiding it across the field for 67 sec., one of three flights that made it second in its class at the Nats...
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! Yes, it's definitely a plane, and it's the talk of Paris. Since midsummer, a phantom pilot has taken to the night sky at least three times, flouting aviation regulations by cruising several hundred feet above Notre Dame, the Place de la Concorde and other monuments. Police have been scanning the night skies with infrared binoculars to find "the Black Baron," as journalists have dubbed the aviator...