Word: preflight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...session. Begin as a good politician is constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even paid a preflight call on his old antagonist Golda Meir at her home near Tel Aviv to secure her blessing for his White House talks...
...July, the same kind of damage was done to a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The sabotage was discovered when a preflight electronic check-out indicated trouble. Then, in August, four RF4 Phantom jets at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, were more ineptly sabotaged. Electrical plugs under the cockpit instrument panels were pulled out -a fact that was instantly perceived when the panel lights failed...
Reassured, Petersen climbed the narrow steps up to the flight deck, where his copilot, First Lieut. Joseph Czarkovski, had already started the preflight checkout of the plane's complex systems. Unlike air crews in World War 11 or Korea, who got to know all the foibles of their particular aircraft, Petersen and his men are not assigned to one plane. It was their first flight in 6623, and they might never fly her again. The crew had been together only since mid-January, and Petersen was substituted at the last moment for the regular aircraft commander, who had developed...
...miles away would be a first that I would prefer to avoid," he says. But Berry hopes to score a first by learning-with greater precision than last time-how much potassium is lost by astronauts traveling and working in space. To do this, he determined the preflight potassium levels of each of the Apollo 16 astronauts. He has also asked them to bring back urine samples from a test to be conducted during the flight, and is confident that a comparison of the two levels will prove significant. "Those urine bags," says Berry with a researcher's peculiar...
LIEUT. COMMANDER THOMAS KENNETH MATTINGLY II, U.S.N., 36, the COmmand-module pilot, has been the most conscientious member of the Apollo 16 crew during preflight training. With good reason, he leaves nothing to chance. Shortly before he was scheduled to make his first space flight aboard Apollo 13 two years ago, the longtime bachelor (he finally married in 1970) was accidentally exposed to the German measles. Because Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized against it, NASA replaced him as command-module pilot rather than risk the first case of measles in space. Mattingly, who stayed behind...