Word: tomcat
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: At least five people were killed this morning when a Navy fighter jet crashed into a Nashville suburb just after taking off on a training mission. The two crew members aboard the F-14 Tomcat died, as did three civilians who were sitting in one of several houses that were set ablaze by the explosion. The twin-engine fighter was returning to Miramar Air Force near San Diego after flying to the Nashville International Airport where it was refueled. "The F-14's engine has long been underpowered and this may have contributed to this crash," notes defense...
...guidance at EMI, they improved immediately. Lennon finds a rude authority in his voice; it blossoms into the plaintive curl that distinguished his Beatles career and oddly disappeared later. McCartney's "wooos'' get full-bodied; instead of the girlish falsetto of early days, he now screams like an electrocuted tomcat. And they suddenly learned how to write songs--the Beatles' enduring legacy. Even their cover versions sound great. "What we generated was fantastic when we played straight rock,'' Lennon says in an interview heard on the album. "And there was nobody to touch us in Britain.'' Listen to Money...
...Force isn't the only service with embarrassing accidents, Diehl notes. During a 1989 flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...
...Tomcat jumped like a bucking bronco. One second. Two seconds. That's all the time Tuba and Rosie have to decide if the jet has enough power to lift off. If not, they would have to eject in a half- second, plunge into the ocean and hope the Eisenhower wouldn't run over them...
...Tomcat dipped slightly as it flew off the bow, then rose. "Two-one-one airborne," Dryfuse radioed the ship, indicating the tail number of their plane. Tuba and Rosie flew off to work...