Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thinking both had missed, and muttering to himself in a cold rage, Gilmore followed the MIG through another wrenching, rolling loop of a brain-draining six gravities, then cut loose a third Sidewinder. The enemy's tail section came apart in a tumble of torn metal, and the plane pitched earthward. In fact, Gilmore's first Sidewinder had also scored, and the Red pilot had ejected. In getting the first MIG-21, Gilmore had killed it twice...
Examining the wreckage of the BOAC airliner that crashed near Mount Fuji in March, U.S. and Japanese experts detected hairline cracks in the Boeing 707's shorn-off tail assembly. By last week the examination had spread to scores of Boeing jets around the world...
Though the cause of the Tokyo crash remains unknown, the Federal Aviation Agency as a result ordered foreign and domestic airlines to inspect and, if necessary, repair tail assemblies of 190 older Boeing 707s and 720s. So far, they have found 61 planes with tiny fissures around the bolt holes where the tail is fastened to the fuselage. In most cases, the affected aircraft have been airborne again within two days...
...like the earth's-is probably distorted into a cometlike shape and may even have its own collection of energetic electrons for Luna to detect. The presence of these electrons would be characterized by a peak of radiation every three hours-each time Luna passed through the lunar tail on the antisolar side of the moon...
Five-Story Tail. Of these, 23 will be passenger planes, each capable of carrying up to 490 customers in seats nine or ten abreast split by two aisles; in addition, there will be eight private compartments in a raised section in the forward part of the plane. The remaining two planes ordered by Pan Am will be freighters, with capacities of 214,000 lbs. as against the 76,400-lb. limit of the airline's current Boeing-made cargo aircraft. Scheduled for delivery starting in September 1969, the 747 will cruise at 45,000 ft. at some 625 m.p.h...