Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TUCSON, Arizona: A ten-mile circle on a snowy Colorado mountain is now the target of the search for Air Force Captain Craig Button and his runaway plane. Working with FAA radar tracks and several eyewitness accounts, the Colorado Civil Air Patrol has placed Button's A-10, an $8.8 million plane loaded with four 500-pound bombs, on New York mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Vail. The mystery of why Button left the Arizona-bound flight path of his three-plane team has raised speculation that he might have purposely broken away. There have been several incidents...
...time being, HFS plans to build up its existing franchises rather than buy new ones. "I can't think of anything else on the service side that is really high on the radar screen," Silverman says. In any case, he notes, what drives him today is no longer the money ("It's not an economic issue") so much as the "fear of failure and the ego gratification of success. It's a way of expressing creative energy." Even if few people outside the business world have ever heard of your company...
Environmentalists complain that too many snowmobilers ride roughshod over park rules. Rangers concede they are hard-pressed, even with radar guns, to enforce the 45-m.p.h. speed limit or keep hot-doggers from tearing off roads and into the underbrush. "Snowmobiles bring out the youth in people," says district ranger Bob Seibert. "Many of these riders can't seem to resist running up and down the hillsides...
Friendly Fire? If there's o ne thing we know about sitings of strange objects in the sky, it's that you can't always believe your eyes. But as a grand jury prepares to examine a controversial videotape showing a radar view of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the speculation that the airliner may have been brought down by an errant missile is gaining a bit on the credibility scale. While the FBI has bluntly dismissed descriptions by several eyewitnesses who thought they saw a glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion...
During World War II, Purcell led a group at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory which developed advanced microwave radar. He was also involved peripherally with the Manhattan Project, helping to devise the instruments which recorded the results of the first atomic bomb test...