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Then John Young edged the "stick" forward, and his ship's porpoise-shaped nose dropped slightly. Plunging earthward, Columbia was falling at an angle about seven times steeper than a normal airliner's descent and was traveling half again as fast. Powerful as it had been on takeoff, the ship was now functioning as a 102-ton glider with no engine to correct its course...
...Takeoff was from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It was perilously near the wind-chill factor of 65° F below -the point at which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest...
DIED. Benjamin S. Kelsey, 74, aeronautical engineer, leading test pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general, who in 1929 assisted James Doolittle in the first "blind" instrument takeoff and landing, set a speed record in 1938 when he flew from Dayton to Buffalo at an average speed of 350 m.p.h. in an Army pursuit plane, and helped develop combat tactics for U.S. fighters in World War II; of cancer; in Stevensburg...
...engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights, and to be throttled up and down, producing more or less power as needed...
...White House. Using his code name, "Superman," he was immediately put through to the President, and, in comparing notes on the latest impasse in the bargaining, the two men came up with a ploy. When he hung up the receiver, Christopher ordered his State Department plane readied for takeoff at noon, Washington time, the next day, when the Carter Administration's term would...