Word: pylons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seattle Times, citing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, reported that United Airlines filed a "service difficulty report" in January 1987 on the 19-year-old jet after mechanics found cracks and corrosion around the pylon of the Number 3 engine...
...Mechanics servicing another Airbus spotted a fuel leak in a pylon connected < to an engine and recommended that it be repaired quickly because of the potential of fire. But a foreman, saying he had not seen the leak, overruled the employees, according to King, and the plane took off. Since the reported leak was not cited in the aircraft's maintenance record, mechanics at other airports were not alerted to double-check for the problem...
...thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed, electrical service was not even interrupted, and the tower remained standing...
Cabot's flying career started in 1910 when, at the age of 13, he served as a judge at the Harvard Air Show. "I had a job on the salt flats making sure the planes rounded the outside not the inside pylon. If they cut the corner I had to raise my red flag," Cabot recalled...
Focus of U.S. theatrical attention last week was a great grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets-the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week a monster variety bill twice daily...