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...pilots to land planes. The pilots in the experiment smoked marijuana and then tested their skills in flight simulators. A full day after taking the drug, long after any sensation of being high had passed, the pilots were still swerving dangerously upon landing. One "crashed" his plane beside the runway. The researchers, who are now expanding the study, concluded that marijuana users may have difficulty performing complex mechanical tasks or doing work that demands quick reactions for 24 hours after smoking the drug...
...troops have been conducting maneuvers since 1983. A $30 million network of air bases, intelligence posts, radar stations and other installations has been built, and last week 96 engineers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into Honduras to begin work on a 4,700-ft. runway within 25 miles of the Nicaraguan border...
Young, who urges that all future shuttle landings should be at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., says in his memo that the weather, runway surface and water surrounding the Kennedy Space Center all make the Florida site dangerous...
...present experience is telling us that if we continue to use the Shuttle Landing Facility [at Kennedy] for end-of-mission landings, sooner or later we will have an accident due to the single runway, its condition ... the unpredictable ... weather, component failures including the flight crew, or, more likely, a combination of the above factors," Young wrote...
High on the wall facing the triple jump runway (or the backstretch, if you're of the running mindset) at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center is a large HEPS spelled out in red tape...