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...cited a number of horrifying incidents resulting from sloppy flying in recent years-a DC-9 striking the water and then bouncing safely into the air while nearing Martha's Vineyard; airliners running into trees, cottages and a sea wall while approaching airports; a DC-9 hitting the runway so hard in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that it broke...
...commandos boarded a bus to go to Schiphol Airport. After the hostages boarded the Boeing, Furuya was handed over to the terrorists. Then, as a flight crew boarded the aircraft, the hostages one by one disembarked. Surrounded by hundreds of troops and armored vehicles, the plane lifted off the runway, carrying enough fuel for an 8½-hour flight...
...distance. Learning that Atlantic squalls would soon lift, Lindbergh decided to be first and lifted off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field even before the weather turned. The Spirit was so weighted with fuel that he cleared the telephone lines at the end of the runway by only 20 feet. His route took him up through New England, over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, past the green southern tips of Ireland and England, and finally over the Channel to France...
...cargo hold, 300 ft. long and 40 ft. wide, could carry up to 200 tons, and fully loaded, the craft would weigh some 320 tons. But its designers estimate that Megalifter would require a takeoff speed of no more than 70 m.p.h. and a runway distance of only about 2,400 ft. to become airborne, and could cruise at 205 m.p.h. Many of its components, such as the cockpit, engine controls and landing gear, are identical to the C-5A's, which would reduce design and manufacturing costs for the giant craft...
...will report, Kissinger can tell the NATO allies that the third summit was certainly the friendliest and most relaxed. After weeks of intermittent rain, the Moscow summer finally arrived with Nixon Thursday afternoon, and warm, 82° sunshine sparkled off the presidential plane as it rolled up the runway at Vmukovo Airport. A huge banner said WELCOME PRESIDENT NIXON in English. Together with Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Brezhnev himself was there to voice it, a considerable honor since he had never before appeared at the airport for a Western visitor, not even Charles...