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...Florida and wouldn't be cruising back into Andrews Air Force Base until noon, comfortably after the morning rush hour had let up. FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, who is the agency's longest serving chief, had already begun a day heavy with meetings. This, the FAA, the flyboys and radar jocks thought, would be an easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the FAA Stopped the World | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...most important, are in constant contact. Controllers are like flashlights in the dark for commercial airplanes: those FAA employees know what's going on in the air around a plane, and can 'see' exactly what each plane is doing. Each plane appears on a controllers radar screen as a so-called 'target' in controller-speak, and each blip representing a plane on that all-important radar is accompanied by a 'data block', which includes the abbreviated name of the airline (AA for American Airlines, UA for United Airlines, for example,) the flight number, the altitude of the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the FAA Stopped the World | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 40 ft. long. The AFSM team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 30 ft. beneath the sand, and it is exploring the site using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Searching For Sheba | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...archaeologists' radar has already located the remains of other structures, part of a vast temple complex covering more than 15 acres. In addition to a thicket of buildings on either side of the hall, the radar has spotted a water well and what appears to be a grand causeway linking Mahram Bilqis with the ancient citadel of Marib, which rises above the desert about three miles to the north. A separate team from the German Archaeological Institute, meanwhile, has uncovered dozens of multistory mausoleums in a cemetery area southwest of the oval enclosure. "We have excavated less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Searching For Sheba | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...Baghdad claimed to have shot down an American aircraft over the southern no-fly zone. The Pentagon confirmed that an unmanned Predator reconnaissance plane was missing but denied Iraqi reports that retaliatory raids killed three civilians and injured 15. U.S. officials said American warplanes attacked military targets, including the radar site at Basra airport, that provide support for Iraq's recently upgraded air defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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