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Engle, acting on an impulse no test pilot could resist-with Houston's O.K., of course-flew Columbia himself during the final turn, rather than letting the computer do it. With a fighter-like maneuver, he put the ship right on line with Runway 23, the same one used on the last trip. After the troubled flight, the smooth touchdown was joyfully anticlimactic. Columbia slid to earth more gently than many a commercial jet. Cheers rose up from the 250,000 people gathered on the desert floor for the homecoming, and controllers in Houston lit up their traditional victory...
...about half an hour apart so López Portillo could welcome them individually. Heat hung over the airport like a suffocating cloud; the temperature on the tarmac approached 100°. Dressed in long-sleeved uniforms with helmets and combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem...
...conditions from primitive airstrips." The insurgents themselves might be interested in some of the wares. For example, the Blowpipe is a 44-lb. antiaircraft missile system that can be fired by a lone attacker. On one page is a "cratering kit," designed to blow 25-ft.-wide holes in runways; on another, aluminum runway repair matting (installable by "completely unskilled labor") is for sale...
Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...
...even New Hampshire. All are operating at full tilt despite the ongoing air controllers' strike. Nineteen-year-old Cameron Airpark, 30 miles east of Sacramento, is an aeronautical paradise of clear skies and steady climate, with little fog or pollution. It consists of a 4,000-ft. paved runway surrounded by 120 half-acre lots that border on 100-ft.-wide, four-lane taxiway-roads with names like Lockheed Drive and Boeing Road. The two center lanes are for cars, the outer two for airplanes. Lots are priced from $35,000 to $80,000. So far, 50 homes valued...