Word: taxiway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying F-16s and F/A-18s...
...President be when he ventures into the volatile Middle East next week? An aide to Secretary of State Warren Christopher left a briefcase full of papers -- reportedly including Clinton and Christopher's detailed itineraries -- somewhere at New York's Kennedy Airport yesterday. It turned up on an airport taxiway, opened...
...after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would have led him back to his assigned takeoff point. His delayed right turn placed him on the active takeoff runway (3 Center...