Word: tu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible that the SST will rise again, if some future Congress decides that it is an economic or political necessity. Congress may well be forced to such a decision by international competition in the supersonic field. Two competitive planes, the Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet TU-144, have been undergoing test flights for more than a year. Although British and French officials are still debating whether to continue bankrolling the Concorde, it is scheduled to begin commercial service in 1974. The Soviet TU-144 may make a dramatic appearance at the European Air Show this...
...None of us would want to watch the Tupolevs go by," says Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am. Nor would Western airmen want to be dependent on the Soviets for spare parts. Eager for high prestige and hard currency, the Russians are making a determined effort to sell their TU-144, as well as many other planes, to airlines in the non-Communist world...
...best that rubles could buy." The real question for Congress, the ads contend, is "Will America be left on the ground?" The Russians have inadvertently aided that argument by-running two-page ads in Aviation Week & Space Technology, a U.S. magazine, urging aerospace executives to buy the Soviet TU-144 SST. They also announced that their plane will go into regular passenger service in October...
Allowing for all these factors, John Constable, HAC team member, was able to interpret birth statistics from Tay Ninh Provincial Hospital. This hospital serves a heavily defoliated province, and "showed an average stillbirth rate in 1968 and 1969 of 68 per 1000 live births. During this same time, the Tu Do [in Saigon] rate was 27.5 per 1000 and that of the Army sample of the entire country...
Russians have almost certainly flown helicopters into combat against southern rebels. They, as well as Egyptian pilots, may also have conducted bombing missions with AN-12 transports and two squadrons of TU-16 medium bombers. The Russians, in addition, are known to have carried out MIG training missions in the north, but whether they have flown MIGs into combat in the south is uncertain...