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...already been designed by a Houston firm, Space Industries Inc. At $900 million, it could be launched by 1994 and take over most of the Freedom station's proposed experiments in space manufacturing. Another mini-station could handle biomedical studies, and others could be used as assembly and takeoff points for the Mars and subsequent missions. Just as with the moon base, these stations would operate indefinitely. Being smaller and less complicated than Freedom, the mini- stations could presumably be launched and built at a lower overall cost...
...Embarrassed Soviet officials later explained that the MiG's pilot had ejected shortly after takeoff from Poland's Kolobrzeg air base, in the mistaken belief that his aircraft had lost power. The plane flew on automatic pilot for 1 hour and 37 minutes, covering 560 miles before falling out of the sky. Soviet officials promised to pay for "physical and moral damages" caused by the mishap...
...make you wait for six hours with 500 other passengers in an area which was once a restroom. We'll sit the plane on the runway for three hours and tell you repeatedly that takeoff will be `in five minutes.' We'll smile and give you a dish labelled `chicken' which will really turn out to be rotting meat...
...million in debt that the parent company, Texas Air, currently owes to Eastern and by handing over to Texas Air $79 million in Eastern assets. Those properties include Eastern's profitable New York-Montreal route, one airport gate at New York's La Guardia Airport and eight pairs of takeoff-and-landing slots at U.S. and Canadian airports...
...same time, individual planes are making more flights and longer ones. A chief measure of wear and tear in an aircraft fuselage is the "pressurization cycle" -- one takeoff, one landing -- which requires that the cabin be pressurized for high-altitude flight and then depressurized during descent. This places stress on the airframe; over time, repeated expansion and contraction weaken the plane. Like a balloon that has been inflated too many times, the plane's skin becomes vulnerable to tearing. But while the Flight 811 jet has been in service for 19 years and is one of the oldest in United...