Word: plane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radar tracks, the 727's moves seemed to be mimicked by the F-16 following closely behind. While the commercial pilot said the F-16 came within 400 ft., Guard officials said the jet stayed at least 1,000 ft. away as it made a visual identification of the plane...
...This contract will effectively lay the ground rules for how American will handle the new regional jets -- fast, efficient 50-seaters with ranges up to 3,000 miles and a smooth ride. The union wants its pilots, who make about $120,000 a year, behind the controls of the planes, but American chairman Robert Crandall wants to use $35,000-a-year American Eagle pilots. "This plane makes a route such as Pocatello, Idaho to Dallas profitable," says Gwynne. "They're ideal for so-called 'long-thin' routes." Gwynne says some analysts believe that hundreds of the new planes...
...most of their $20 council fee. As the minutes ticked by, we peered anxiously down Mt. Auburn street, shifting weight from one foot to the other ever more quickly and glancing every few seconds at our watches because every moment feels like an hour when you have a plane to catch. Fortunately, I had a late flight and had plenty of time. The Dins were not so lucky. After half-an-hour they bolted for the T (and I with them), and barely made their flight...
...YORK: If two F-16's hadn't on Wednesday come so close to a civilian plane that collision alarms went off, news that four National Guard fighter jets passed close to another commercial flight would have barely registered on the media radar screen. But the planes did, and for the second day in a row, Pentagon officials found themselves explaining a miss that, while not nearly as close a call at the first one, has raised concerns about the safety in the airspace between New York and Washington, D.C. As an investigation into Wednesday's incident continues, Pentagon officials...
...calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians' overthrow of the republic. Luke is an irresistible figure, the country bumpkin with just the right...