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...Tuesday touchdown at J.F.K. He acknowledges that individual planes have their quirks, but N93119, which he has flown about 60 times during the past 10 years, did not seem to have any. Indeed, there are only minor infractions on its Federal Aviation Administration record: a blown tire on takeoff in 1987 and a leaky oil line that resulted in an engine shutdown in 1988. And thus, at 8:02 p.m. on Wednesday, N93119 left the gate and taxied toward the runway. A few minutes later it would be in the air, flying eastward over the narrow, ragged strip of Long...
There is already a small community of people whose legacy is grief. Every time a plane goes down, the Lockerbie families cringe. This time the parallels are almost unnerving: a night-time transatlantic flight destroyed most likely by a terrorist bomb shortly after takeoff. Richard Mack lost his younger brother William in Lockerbie. When he heard the TWA news last week, he couldn't sleep. His wife Kathleen became ill; his 74-year-old father John collapsed. Other Lockerbie survivors had fits of anxiety and sleeplessness as well. Mack sympathized immediately with the hundreds of families who were reeling from...
...state of denial about the threat of terrorism, have been reluctant to acknowledge that we may be forced to make some trade-offs, forgoing quick, carefree airport experiences in return for improved odds in the sky. The Israelis require coach flyers to arrive at the airport three hours before takeoff, while business-class ticket holders must arrive two hours early. "Will the American public be willing to sit there for hours and hours just waiting?" wonders Louis J. Rodrigues, who led the gao inquiry. "We have to agree, as a country, that the threat is significant enough to warrant that...
...Kerri Strug, who was the 14-year-old baby of the 1992 team. After injuring her ankle when she missed her first vault attempt, Strug took the long walk back down the runway, with the crowd roaring its support. Strug then calmly sprinted down the runway, cartwheeled onto the takeoff board, springing backward onto the vault, twisted 1 1/2 times and stuck her landing. After holding her landing, she lifted up her left leg, grimacing in pain and then collapsed. She was carried off the floor in tears, as the crowd erupted at her score of 9.712, clinching the gold...
...hell till you break the other." There is a little more to the 100 than that. Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come up too quickly, you lose acceleration. If you lean too far, you can stumble. It is like an airplane taking off--there is an ideal angle at which you can generate speed." To get up to speed--about...