Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers could buy aluminum chips to use in the one-armed bandits. The machines were set by S.A. to pay out 90% of the take in winnings, which is above the 50% at some gambling casinos but about the same as payouts at Nevada hotels. After takeoff, 148 of the 330 passengers aboard requested time at the slots and attempted to line up the familiar combinations of bars and cherries. The jackpot payoff of $100 was signaled by three pictures of S.A.'s logo, a stylized bird. Said Toronto Psychiatrist Jon Ennis, a passenger on the flight: "Little...
...strike nor the resulting mass firings crippled the nation's vital air transportation network, though in some areas and selected sectors of the economy the impact was palpable. After a confused first day of jammed air terminals, extensive flight cancellations and runway waits of up to two hours before takeoff, the FAA's long-prepared contingency plans rapidly pushed the movement of aircraft back toward normal. As the strike wore on, the percentage of airline flights operating as scheduled showed overall improvement: Monday, 65%; Tuesday, 67%; Wednesday, 72%; Thursday...
...swooping swimmer in churning blue water, a nearly invisible running horse latticed with bands of light, a jagged greenish swirl, a diver poised before takeoff. These photographs, ranging from impressionism to clear abstraction, are the work of Joel Walker, a gifted amateur cameraman, who took them for his amusement and then was pleased enough with the results to hang them on the walls of his Toronto office as decoration...
...demanding. Some others: smaller, lighter fighter planes that, they contend, would be easier to maintain and keep in the air than supersophisticated craft; light tanks for the Rapid Deployment Force that could fit snugly into most cargo planes; greater use by all services of V-STOL (very short takeoff and landing) planes, like the Marine Corps' highly successful Harrier...
...aircraft continued to change course continuously as they moved in on target, howling through the Sunday twilight at 400 m.p.h. For months the Israelis had studied the route up the Euphrates Valley, convinced that they could negotiate it without being detected by radar or ground observers. Fifty minutes after takeoff, the warplanes sighted their target, the distinctive cupola housing the nuclear reactor. The aircraft wheeled and climbed toward the setting sun?the classic maneuver prior to attack...