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...flight attendant's after-takeoff chant is so familiar that to an experienced traveler it sounds like "Blah, blah, blah, seat belts. Mumble, jumble, life vests under your seats." Suddenly there is an ear-opening sentence: "Welcome to People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the history of aviation!" Welcome, indeed. We are aboard People's el cheapo $149 Newark-to-London flight, and the mood of most of us is light to the point of giddiness. Who cares if it costs $3 to check a suitcase? Most of us are traveling light. So what if instead...
...months earlier, University of Houston Head Coach Tommy Tellez had changed Lewis' approach style. Using his extraordinary 8-ft. stride and ability to hit 22 m.p.h., Lewis now starts a precisely measured 167 ft. 6 in. behind the takeoff board, farther than any competitor. Forward velocity-not height-makes for distance, believes Tellez, and Lewis defies gravity by continuing to run almost straight off into the air, pedaling furiously for balance, not unlike Wile E. Coyote going off a cliff in a Road Runner cartoon. "It's my best attribute," he says. "In basketball I could hang...
...minutes after takeoff, his eyes scanned the blue sky at 10,000 ft. When he prepared to land at various stops along the way, the air controllers; who knew the identity of the approaching flyer, usually directed him down with a certain audible deference. Glenn put the plane on automatic pilot and began talking about his early flying days. He was asked how clearly he remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third...
...blaze was extinguished by 19 pieces of fire equipment surrounding the plane. It was the first loss of life in a commercial airline accident since Jan. 11, when three crew members of a United Airlines cargo jet were killed when it crashed into a swamp near Detroit just after takeoff. Among those who perished were Curtis Mathes Jr., 54, chairman of Curtis Mathes Corp., a Dallas television manufacturing firm, and Canadian Folk Singer Stan Rogers...
...mission specialist, Ride will not pilot the shuttle. On takeoff and landing, she will sit just behind Challenger's commander, Bob Crippen, 45, who flew on the initial shuttle flight and is the first to get a second shuttle mission, and Co-Pilot Frederick Hauck, 42, a rookie. Monitoring the flood of data from the instrument panel, Ride will in effect be the flight engineer. If an emergency occurs, she will suggest special corrective procedures. But Ride's primary responsibility will come later, when she is set to operate the shuttle's 50-ft.-long mechanical...