Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such incidents should come as no surprise from the heirs of an airline whose legacy includes a pilot who, in 1986, tried to demonstrate his feel for an Aeroflot passenger jet by attempting to land with the cockpit blinds closed. More than 60 people were killed. But like the skipper, who survived, the tradition lives on. During a recent flight from northern Russia to Moscow, one curious passenger discovered a party in progress at the back of the plane. Vodka and sandwiches were being shared by most of the crew, including the copilot who, less than an hour from landing...
...another chance. "Sure, this is nothing compared to 1991, nothing," insisted bearded retired Navy Captain H.P. ("Jeep") Streeper, also 72, a skipper of the U.S.S. Hancock in Vietnam and a pilot with 800 carrier landings. "But that's what we want, a tone-down. It'll be a couple of years before we get back to battery...
Hanks plays an alcoholic former major leaguer who is given a last chance for redemption as the Peaches skipper. As a traditional male placed in a distinctly untraditional role, he is given a lot of bluster and vulgarity to play. Too much of it. It forces him away from the reality he's also trying gamely to find. The same could be said of the whole picture. Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant...
EVER SINCE THE LOADED SUPERTANKER UNDER HIS command foundered on Bligh Reef in April 1989 and unleashed an 11 million-gal. spill of Alaskan crude oil into Prince William Sound, Skipper Joseph Hazelwood has been a marked man. Last week, when the Maritime College of the State University of New York announced that it had hired Hazelwood to help teach cadets how to stand watch, environmental groups were quick to remonstrate. "This is truly amazing," said the Sierra Club...
Some saltwater romantics complain that all the emphasis on technology has diminished the role of good old-fashioned seamanship. To which America 3's skipper Koch replies, "Sailing skill is fine, but you can't do something with a boat that won't do it." In the world of America's Cup racing, it seems, you get what...