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...tiny specks trailing wispy black contrails streaked across the brilliant azure sky. "You guys are the last guys of the war!" exclaimed an excited voice from the squawk box in a truck parked at the edge of the runway. Within 30 seconds, the two A-7D Corsair fighter-bombers were touching down at this air-base set on a bucolic plateau of waving green grass some 140 miles northeast of Bangkok and 290 miles from Phnom-Penh. Skipping onto the concrete strip amid puffs of blue smoke, the planes taxied over to ground personnel for a routine "disarming" check. Then...
...past five years, Colorado authorities have been planning to build a new $22 million runway for Denver's Stapleton International Airport on about 600 acres of land belonging to the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The Army turned over the deed to the land in 1969, but as late as last May, it was forbidding jets to fly over the area because of unspecified "safety factors." Denver Mayor William H. McNichols finally went to Washington to find out what was causing the delay. He soon learned. Beneath the prospective flight approach, the Army still maintains a stockpile...
...Pentagon now says that it plans to demilitarize the nerve gas starting in October. The process takes time (some will be detoxified in a special new facility at the arsenal), and therefore Denver airport cannot build its new runway before 1977. Meantime, Colorado Air Pollution Official Joe Palomba Jr. is investigating what other wonders the arsenal may have omitted from its inventory. Says he: "I do not want to be hit with any more surprises...
Then it was Koslov's turn. After a slow flight over the runway, the TU-144 started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail...
...prescribed approach, he announced to the controllers in the airport tower that he wanted to try again. After a second turn, the Vanguard, sinking rapidly, was in a perfect slot for landing. But to the controller's surprise, the pilot suddenly said that he had overshot the runway. Then radio contact broke...