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Nonetheless, experts are taking a close look at every aspect of air travel. The growth of traffic since the advent of airline deregulation has created some concerns about overcrowding in the sky. Because of the spurt of new U.S.-based carriers, about 30,000 flights land or take off in the U.S. each day, an increase of more than 10% from seven years ago. The new airlines provide a bewildering array of commuter, regional, national and international transport, and have filled air ports and airlanes with planes of all sizes...
Like members of a family, the four basic forces of nature are all distinct personalities, with their separate quirks, abilities and housekeeping chores. Electromagnetism makes it possible for elevators to rise, light bulbs to glow and lightning to snake across the sky. Gravity holds chairs to the floor and planets in their orbital paths. The strong force binds together the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. The weak force causes subatomic particles to shoot out of the nuclei of atoms during the radioactive decay of such unstable elements as uranium...
...prosaic commuter craft drops out of a blue-black sky and taxis down the flight line, past Rockwell International, which is testing the B-1B bomber; past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing...
...noontime sun beat down on a weather-beaten throng of 20,000 assembled in the dusty market town of Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields, the villagers stood in the withering heat waiting for an apparition from the sky. As a whining white air force helicopter came into view, the crowd spotted the broad, beaming face of President Alan García Pérez, waving a white handkerchief in greeting. "Alan!" thundered the crowd as the helicopter set down in a swirl of dust. "Alan! Alan...
...went off the air early in the week, it announced that government forces had foiled the attempted coup and maintained, "the situation in the capital is calm." That, quite obviously, was not true. Though the fighting faltered occasionally, it continued throughout the week. Eyewitnesses spoke of "deafening blasts" and "sky-high balls of flame" in the port. On Thursday, a Western diplomat in San'a, the capital of neighboring North Yemen, reported that gunfire and rocket exchanges had continued in Aden through the day, adding that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told...