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...Philippine President Corazon Aquino alarming. According to army intelligence last week, Aquino was to be the target of an uprising this month led by prominent Right-Wing Politicians Gregorio Honasan, the fugitive colonel whose August mutiny nearly toppled Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos. One crony reportedly even had a six-seater plane ready to spirit the exiled Marcos from Hawaii to Manila...
...year--and it very well may be--it's certainly the most kinetic. The Harvard Square audience with which I saw the picture leaned closer to the screen as the movie unraveled, subject to some tacit gravitational pull. In this sense it's a genuine edge-of-your-seater, maybe even a beneath-the-seater, or shall we say a...crouching-in-the-aisler? Bring a pal. Bring a security blanket. Bring your goshdarn...
...first aircraft off the ground Monday, at 12:13 p.m. EST, were 28 tankers from Royal Air Force bases in Fairford and Mildenhall. Minutes later a squadron of 24 two-seater khaki-and-brown F-111 attack bombers began streaking off runways at Lakenheath and were joined by five EF-111 electronic jamming planes whose mission was to disable Libyan radar capabilities. Flying at 30,000 ft., the force rendezvoused over southern England and refueled four times during its seven-hour flight through darkened skies. After the first refueling, seven planes, brought along as a reserve in case of airborne...
Usually, each weekend, members of this two-year old organization drive 30 miles out of Boston to Mansfield, where they rent single-engine, two-seater Cessna 152 airplanes for $30 an hour from Powell Aviation. According to club Co-President Javier F. Arango '85, he and the other Certified Flight Instructors (CFIs) in the club fly for recreation and also provide one-and-a-half hour lessons for less experienced flyers...
Although a new, single-engine, two-seater, six-gear aircraft costs around $30,000 to $40,000, Hicks is not the only club member who dreams of owning an airplane. Arango says that he hopes to pursue a career that will allow him to fly himself places for business reasons...