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...absolutely superb." Halaby took the 747 through high-altitude stalls and a series of landings and takeoffs. "You become integrated with the ship. That big fin and so much rudder contribute to stability and control." The plane was so bulky that he found that it seemed to dwarf the runway. Landing, he reported, was "like training for carrier landings." When he taxied back to the hangar, the feeling was "like docking a patrol boat?you've got to sail it in, and very carefully...
...biggest boosters are all too well aware, it is on the ground that 747 passengers will find what Halaby calls "a surface-transport gap, a hotel gap and a parking-lot gap." There is also that conspicuous airport gap. The 747 can land in the same length of runway as a 707, but its sheer size makes many other changes necessary. The only airport in the world that claims to be fully prepared for the 747 is Paris' Orly, which has already built one separate terminal and has another under way. By June, London's Heathrow will be the second...
...happen that way," Halaby recalls. "There was no windmilling, no power and no gear, except by hand-crank. I began cranking fast on my way down. I got in the final twist, and the landing gear went down just as I was turning for the final approach to the runway...
...fighters shattered the Spanish noon last week, a Medieval-looking man patrolled the runway of the joint U.S.-Spanish airbase at Torrejón near Madrid. On his outstretched hand perched a hooded peregrine falcon. A strange place to practice the ancient art of falconry? Not quite: the U.S. Air Force has drafted the regal birds of prey to chase flocks of little bustards that endanger aircraft...
...danger began when hordes of bustards collided with jets darting off the runway. In 1967, they caused a loss of $1,500,000 in damaged aircraft. The Air Force failed to get rid of the pests with rifle fire; harsher remedies (grenades, poison) were rejected because they might kill other wildlife...