Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a pair of the needle-nose supersonic bombers known as Blackjacks roared through patchy clouds above Kubinka Air Base near Moscow last week, a special ^ visitor was craning his neck to get a glimpse: Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, the first American allowed to see the Soviets' top-secret plane...
January 1969: Linda Grinage, infant daughter strapped to her back and Husband Tyrone Austin at her side, boards a Miami-bound airplane in New York City. Crying "Black power, Havana!" the couple hijacks the plane to Cuba. Grinage holds a gun to the head of a two-year-old passenger...
...reconnaissance bombers on patrols off Alaska and the U.S.'s Eastern Seaboard. New jet fighters like the MiG-29, a downsized version of the 14-year-old U.S. F-15, leave skeptics unimpressed. After inspecting a MiG-29 in the Soviet Union, a delegation of U.S. experts found the plane's electronics and fabrication to be second-rate. In London, a British defense official dismissed the even newer MiG-31 as "simply a pregnant...
...earthbound machine can fully duplicate the dives or turns of a plane in flight. But it turns out that a person does not need to be flying through space to feel as if he were. The human body responds not so much to motion as to acceleration, what the experts call "onset cues." By rapidly extending or retracting its hydraulic legs, a simulator can effectively create the sensation of a sudden pitch...
...Britain's Labor Party embarked on an eleven-day goodwill tour of southern Africa designed to lift his ratings. En route from Mozambique to Zimbabwe last week, Kinnock and his entourage landed by mistake at a tiny military airstrip near the Mozambican border. Instead of a welcoming party, the plane was met by Zimbabwean soldiers, armed with Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifles, who herded Kinnock's 15-member group into a whitewashed...