Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Experienced pilots are only too aware of the many hazards that can be encountered in the sky. The catalogue of dangers includes flocks of migratory birds, sudden storms, atmospheric turbulence from jets, new high-rise buildings and towers along landing glide paths, instrument-confusing microwave emissions, occasional rocket launches, and the threat of collision with other planes. Now pilots have something utterly unexpected to contend with. In its latest "Notams" (Notices to Airmen), the Federal Aviation Administration has warned aircraft to keep clear of four laser experiment sites: McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas: a Harvard observatory northwest of Boston...
...that blocked faster movement. North Viet Nam moved two divisions out of areas south of the DMZ and into the Laotian panhandle, bringing total Communist troop strength along the trail to 30,000. Company-size units engaged the South Vietnamese in more than a dozen battles, usually night-time rocket and mortar attacks on lonely ARVN fire bases. In the heaviest fighting of the campaign, the Communists reportedly overran one base and cut off at least two others. South Vietnamese casualties officially rose to 147 dead and were probably much higher; Communist casualties were...
...year-old war in Indochina ushered in the Age of the Chopper, and the allied thrust into Laos last week vividly demonstrated why. The whirr of helicopter rotors accompanied the vast operation at every stage: airborne Cobra gunships softened up, or "prepped," landing sites with machine-gun and rocket fire; workhorse Hueys lifted entire battalions of South Vietnamese troops into enemy territory and evacuated the wounded; giant Chinooks supplied ground forces with everything from medicines to cannon. During a single day of the offensive, U.S. helicopters flew 1,100 sorties into Laos. Yet even as the wondercraft...
There have been increased rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases in the northwestern part of South Vietnam and across the border in Laos...
...Polaris and Poseidon missiles, its U-2 spy plane. Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other into a spectacular transatlantic financial collapse. Their plight was the result of inflation, management errors, soaring ambitions that were frustrated and the difficulties of taming...