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Filling the Gaps. Last week a live ringer for the Tin Goose, Aircraft Hydroforming's newly refined Bushmaster 2000, trundled down a Long Beach, Calif., runway and took off over the Pacific on a test flight. The Bushmaster has the 77-ft. 10-in. wingspan, all the lifting power and durability of its venerable predecessor, and the basic structure of the aircraft remains virtually unchanged. "After all," says Hydroforming's president, Ralph P. Williams, "not one Tri-Motor in all these years has ever had a structural failure...
...after day, planes dropped down on the runway of the L.B.J. Ranch...
...electric companies have bought oil-fueled "black start" generators to help reactivate giant turbines more quickly. Some companies are making plans to install computers programmed to monitor loads and correct "cascading" frequencies of the kind touched off by the Beck blowout. New York's Kennedy International Airport, whose runway lights vanished before the eyes of bewildered jet captains, has put in eight diesel generators that can kick on within twelve seconds...
...begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor comes aboard to measure for suits and shirts, and between organized activities visitors get an opportunity to spend their own "fun money." "My wife bought herself ten glass-beaded sweaters," complained a Nevada dealer. "I'll have to sell glass-beaded refrigerators when we get home to get even...
...helicopter stands. The Cav burns about 85,000 gallons of fuel each day. Heart of the camp is the Golf Course, where the first troopers hacked out an airfield with a machete in one hand and rifle in the other. Today the Golf Course boasts a 3,300-ft. runway built of aluminum planking that can handle C-130 "Herky Bird" transports. Army engineers are busy paving everything from hardstands to the 20 miles of all-weath er roads that link the base facilities...