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...aboard the good ship Liberal. Following the captain's orders, the servile minions of the left are struggling to adjust their vessel's sails for an about-face. The crew, upset, but believing that they can no longer stay the course, are hastily climbing the masts and adjusting the rudder to save their ship...
With travelers already leery following the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s...
...them meaningful and caring relationships with adults, a positive legacy, respect and the possibility for a life filled with potential. These principles should be the international standard for making decisions for all children and adults. No longer should we expect children to navigate without a map, steer without a rudder or seek without a friend. JOHN R. SEITA Kalamazoo, Michigan Via E-mail...
...modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year-old whose feet did not reach the rudder pedals to fly an airplane across the country in a misbegotten publicity stunt--as long as a licensed pilot was beside her. At week's end a federal investigator suggested that Jessica's Cessna was overloaded for the thin Rocky Mountain air and wind shear may have induced the flight instructor...
Harvard's ship-of-state goes without rudder...