Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronauts on the moon. Lockheed, Boeing and Rockwell have all been working on the conceptual designs for a space plane. At the moment, says one industry consultant, "it's just a gleam in everyone's eye." But what a gleam: the plane would take off on a conventional runway and fly into orbit like a rocket. It could launch satellites, much as the space shuttle has done, or it could simply whisk U.S. passengers from coast to coast in twelve minutes. Such staggering speed would only be possible with a new kind of engine that could function both...
...hurt. Thirty minutes later, the kidnapers and their captives climbed into a police-supplied Renault minivan and drove off to the Nantes airport. There they parked on a runway and released two of the remaining hostages. Further talks with Broussard convinced the three that even if they commandeered a plane, they had nowhere to go. Courtois, said Broussard afterward, "realized that he was at an impasse." Finally he, Khalki and the third kidnaper, Patrick Thiolet, drove to the airport terminal and surrendered, after Khalki was assured he could return to Morocco. Courtois sneered one last time at reporters, calling them...
...chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then smashed, tail first, into a small hill, disintegrating in flames about a half-mile from the end of the runway...
...good twelve miles. Pilot Griffin was first told by the tower to take off to the west, which would have put the plane quickly over the town of Gander and its 12,000 residents. Fortunately for the town, the wind shifted and the captain was directed to use a runway toward the south...
After clearing the Arrow DC-8 for takeoff at 6:45 a.m., the Gander tower operators heard nothing more from the crew. The four-engine jet began its roll, speeding past Deadman's Pond on its left, and its wheels left the runway at 6:49. It was airborne for less than one minute before veering to its right and dropping...