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...sooner had Cavalier and the rest of the fleet left Seattle than Sparky Borgert, 62, who once sailed with Kardonsky, rattled off a corrugated iron runway at Point Barrow and began tracking the shifting ice from a small plane. As Crowley Maritime's "chief iceman," Borgert decides when to allow the convoy to sail through the floes: "We've got to have an avenue wide enough that we feel confident the barges won't get destroyed. Then we'll get 'em running like scared rabbits." Every day (and usually twice a day) for more than...
...most people, living close to an airport can be nightmarish, a constant affliction of screaming jet engines and shuddering vibration as huge airliners pass overhead. To a special few, a home beside an airport runway is the realization of a cherished dream. These people own their own planes and dwell in "air parks," residential communities organized around a private airstrip, accessible from nearly every home. Residents can park their planes in their front yards or in hangars-some of them two-plane models-adjacent to their houses. "When the kids ask for the keys to go out," says a resident...
...safety question was inevitably raised, however, by the first midair collision since the start of the walkout. Two small planes approaching the San Jose, Calif, airport smashed into each other two miles short of the runway, killing one person and injuring two others. Both pilots were flying under visual flight rules (VFR) and thus were responsible for keeping a safe distance from other aircraft. A PATCO official claimed that a San Jose controller had not informed the pilots of each other's positions, but a preliminary NTSB report absolved the control tower of any responsibility for the crash...
Shortly before sunrise one day last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
...appointed day, wind conditions were ideal: only a breeze from the southwest, which would blow the gas away from Denver in case of a disaster. At 6:37 a.m., the first plane began rolling down the runway, escorted by a Jeep outfitted with a machine gun. Halfway down the strip, the C-141 ground to a breathtaking halt; mechanics rushed out, found the trouble-a faulty pressure gauge-and replaced it. By that time, the second and only other plane of the day had disappeared into the red-streaked...