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Efforts are also beginning to be made to attack unavoidable noise pollution. John Wayne International Airport in Orange County, Calif., boasts the toughest runway noise standards in the country. Observers can stand on the field and carry on conversations in normal tones, even as jets take off and land. Los Angeles International Airport has pledged to be equally quiet by the end of the decade...
This play is almost as poorly produced as it is directed. Jonathan Quander's sets and costumes are uninspired, and the use of stage space is egregious. Though many scenes creatively utilize the balconies, Quander has unwisely placed a runway that extends from the mainstage. In addition, several of the runway scenes are staged with the actors' and actresses' backs facing half the audience at a time. Better blocking could save some scenes, but in those scenes staged beneath the back balcony, the action is invisible to some audience members...
...rain fell vs. an average of 28 in. for that period. Reservoirs are half full at best; some are empty. At Edwards Air Force Base, near Lancaster, pumping for groundwater has opened a half-mile-long, 12-ft.- deep, 4-ft.-wide crack close to a runway used by the space shuttles. Enough trees have died in the past two years, says the state Forestry Department, to build 1 million large three-bedroom houses. "I don't want to sound too severe," says a spokesman, "but there are certainly more dead trees than there ever have been in modern times...
...specialized group of U.S. Air Force F-4G Wild Weasels continually land with film taken by nose- mounted cameras. Less than 10 minutes after a Weasel touches down, its film is rushed into one of a cluster of van-size steel boxes, bolted together at the edge of a runway, that serve as a photo intelligence center. Specialists wearing white gloves bend over light tables and peer through loupes to examine miles of black-and-white film as it rolls by. Most of the film is a dead gray wash -- desert sand -- but occasionally a white speck or a cluster...
...felt his right wing rip into the DC-9's cabin and tear off one of its tail engines. Despite his shattered wing, Ouellette skillfully retained control and braked to a stop. Said an aide at the National Transportation Safety Board: "He damn well could have cartwheeled down the runway into another fireball. He saved his people...