Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MBTA Board of Directors on February 4 submitted their recommendation for fare reductions but made it contingent on a huge budget increase. Coughlin said yesterday that the cuts would therefore cost about $7 million. Not surprisingly, the transport system's Advisory Board--composed of representatives of cities and towns--has refused to provide the additional funds, claiming hardship from Proposition 21/2...
...Wednesday morning, Oct. 10, we awoke to the ominous news that some 20 Soviet transport aircraft were on the way to Syria via Hungary and Yugoslavia. An airlift of such magnitude must have been organized for several days...
...President Sandro Pertini, then met with Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini at Rome's Chigi Palace. Throughout, Dozier handled himself like a practiced politician, showing no signs of the anxiety or depression that so often afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped a wing dangerously low during an aborted landing at Andrews Air Force Base, was his homecoming potentially marred. When the plane finally touched down safely, Dozier greeted Vice President George Bush on the tarmac with characteristic unconcern. Said he: "It's doggone good to be home...
Jones, a largely self-taught aeronautical genius who never finished college, did not pursue his idea until the late 1960s. ("I didn't push it very much because it looked pretty weird.") By then, the U.S. was seriously considering construction of a large SST, a commercial supersonic transport, and wind-tunnel tests confirmed that the oblique wing should do the things he claimed it could. As Jones explains, at supersonic speeds conventional swept-back wings create noticeable pressure on each other, like two motorboats speeding side by side through the water and slamming waves into each other...
...first 757 will be unveiled next month in Seattle. Just behind those planes are plans for a new craft code named the 7-7. This would be a 150-passenger plane. Boeing is currently talking to the Japanese government's Central Transport Development Corp. about possible joint production...