Word: yeager
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...December, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 with 104 passengers and six crew aboard was forced to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., after a 14-inch hole opened in its fuselage at 31,000 feet...
Wolfe's heroes are men who can be reckless in their commitments to professionalism, another name for courage. He has admired these types before, most fully in his portrait of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the type is represented by a feisty old Jewish judge, an Irish criminal lawyer and an Irish investigator for the D.A.'s office. Wolfe pays conditional tribute to what he identifies as Celtic machismo, a refusal to back off from confrontations, and passes on the street theory that regardless of race or background, all members...
...other 300 imperfect candlesticks? According to Charles Yeager, Washington correspondent for the weekly Linn's Stamp News, those rarities are circulating somewhere in the American heartland. "If I lived in the Midwest," says Yeager, "I'd go down to my local post office and have a look...
...most popular U.S. curiosities at the show were round-the-world Flyers Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. But Voyager, the unique lightweight airplane in which the duo circled the globe nonstop without refueling, was not at Le Bourget. Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed...
Psychologist David Lykken, one of the Minnesota researchers, thinks the study will shove the pendulum further away from the "radical environmentalism" of those who believe the characters of children are more or less created by their parents and environment. Lykken says Test Pilot Chuck Yeager is daring because he was "genetically endowed with a low scale of fearlessness," a trait that might have been redirected or tamped down but not eradicated. Says Psychologist Nancy Segal, a member of the project: "Parents can work to make a child less fearful, but they can't make that child brave...