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...twin-engine DC-3 lifted from the runway just after 5 p.m. and headed out over the Pacific for Hawaii. Barely an hour out, the World War II-vintage ship developed what sounded like engine trouble, and returned to San Francisco's International Airport for a thorough checkup. No problem was found, and at 11:30 p.m. it set out again. At 3:40 a.m., 525 miles out, there was trouble once more. The pilot radioed a passing airliner that loss of oil was forcing him to feather an engine and return to San Francisco. The morning papers reported...
Within 23 days of Feddersen's arrival, he had shaken loose 2,600 lbs. of spare parts for failing trucks and bulldozers, procured vitally needed aluminum sections for the airstrip's 8,000-ft. jet runway, and made MCB 10 the only outfit on the base with a perpetual supply of beer, steaks, lettuce, tomatoes and lumber. In the past two weeks alone, Feddersen has turned up a truck engine, two electronic workbenches, 15 file cabinets, 35 electric fans, 1,000 lbs. of small automotive parts and 42 hickory-handled carnival mallets. "You're dead...
...safety is of intensely personal concern to me and to all other airline pilots. But we live within myriad rules and multiple pressures. For example, at New York's traffic-saturated Kennedy Airport, 8,400-ft. Runway 4R has been equipped and designated by the FAA as the main instrument runway. But 14,500-ft. Runway 13R, which provides the length today's jets need to land safely on wet surfaces, has no ILS (instrument landing system). This becomes especially inappropriate considering Kennedy Airport's frequent combination of very low ceilings and visibility with accompanying southeasterly surface...
...some 625 m.p.h., and will have a range of nearly 6,000 miles, or roughly the distance between New York and Baghdad. Its tail section will stand more than five stories high, its Pratt & Whitney-made jet engines will be so powerful that the aircraft will actually need less runway space for takeoffs than...
...plane neared Key West, four U.S. Navy F-102s streaked aloft to give it the once-over. But it already was curving back toward Cuba. It was long after dark, and the plane was touching down on the runway at Havana's José Marti Airport, when Betancourt caught on to the trick. Angrily, he ordered Alvarez to take off again. When the pilot refused, Betancourt shot him dead and frantically tried to get the plane off the ground himself. But the Ilyushin only roared off the end of the runway and came to rest in a plowed field...