Word: plane
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...major disruption for the band was losing Brennan. "A glamorous way to lose a band member is a plane crash, a drug overdose, or maybe asphyxiation, but we lost ours to academics," says Tarver, smiling. Brennan won the prestigious Rome Prize in classics for a year of study in Rome...
...Leathernecks are reaching for high-tech equipment to get the job done. Last week the Corps unveiled a revolutionary "tilt-rotor" aircraft designed to dominate the modern battlefield. Known as the Osprey, it will take off and land vertically like a helicopter but fly as fast as a conventional plane. It will do all this, the Corps proclaims, by tilting its 38-ft. propellers, which point upward during takeoffs and landings and forward in level flight...
...marvels, the Osprey has at least one drawback: its price, up to $35 million a plane, is two to six times as much as the price of the CH-53 or Black Hawk helicopters that some officials say could...
...benefits of hydrogen have not been lost on one group of U.S. researchers. Engineers working on the proposed National Aerospace Plane say that hydrogen is the only combustible that ignites fast enough to boost the craft to orbital velocity, roughly 25 times the speed of sound. The frigid fuel could also be used in a cooling system to keep the plane from burning up during its fiery re-entry into the atmosphere. Test flights are scheduled...
...biggest plane order in the history of commercial aviation, a $5 billion deal to buy 100 Boeing jets and 30 Airbus models by 1995. The purchaser was not one of the titans of the airline business but a 16-employee Beverly Hills-based concern known as International Lease Finance Corp. Founded in 1973 by Steven Udvar-Hazy, 42, and Louis Gonda, 39, with financial help from Gonda's father Leslie, 68, the company has become one of the biggest players in the burgeoning business of jet leasing, with earnings of $51 million last year on revenues of $180 million. ILFC...