Word: taxiways
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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...
...result was a degree of paralysis that few nations ever experience. For three days last week, Bangladesh's only transportation link with the outside world was a pair of aging Fokker Friendship propjets that took off from a relatively short taxiway at Dhaka's otherwise flooded international airport, carrying small loads of passengers to and from Calcutta. Roads and railways were cut, and even ferryboats stopped running, because their terminals were flooded. At one point, only a handful of helicopters connected the capital with the rest of the country. By week's end, as the floodwaters started to recede...
Executives say they are spending too much valuable time waiting on the taxiway. In a poll of 461 members of the Executive Committee, a group of presidents and chief executives, 36% said they have lost job efficiency because of air-travel delays. To be sure of arriving on time at a meeting in another city, many business travelers take the precaution of flying the night before their appointment, saddling their company with the additional cost of a hotel room...