Word: tankerous
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...question when you don't think you will like the answer." But Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said later that during his meeting with Walters, the Ambassador--again on a what-if basis--specifically asked if Spain would permit overflight, or, failing that, at least allow tanker planes taking off from Spanish bases to refuel the F-111s in flight over the Atlantic. Whenever asked, Gonzalez replied with a firm...
...F/A-18 fighters, 14 EA-6B electronic jamming planes and a variety of support craft. As the Air Force's F-111 squadron rounded the tip of Tunisia, it was skillfully integrated into the Navy's airborne armada by a single Air Force officer providing coordination from an airborne tanker...
...have made the security-conscious Saudis extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established a menacing threat to Saudi Arabia and its equally vulnerable gulf neighbors. The danger was underscored last week when an Iranian helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Saudi oil tanker in gulf waters, leaving four crewmen missing and seven wounded...
...canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...
...bombing raid that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, last week's attack had been elaborately planned. At dawn on Tuesday, eight F-15s took off from an air base in northern Israel, followed about 40 minutes later by eight F-16s. The F-16s were refueled by Israeli tanker planes; then they dived and continued to fly as low as possible over the Mediterranean to avoid radar detection, approaching Tunis from the south. While the F-16s staged the bombing raid, the F-15s remained in reserve some 500 miles away. Near the island of Malta, an Israeli naval...