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While that may be true, Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed plans last year to buy a fleet of lasered 747s. However, Gates has continued R&D, and that gives missile-defense backers a flickering flame of hope. There's no doubt the companies involved - and their supporters in Congress - will use the shootdown to try to resurrect the program. After all, the heart of the program isn't a lumbering fleet of airliners but the chemical-oxygen-iodine lasers within...
...estimated $6.1 billion in 2005 to $13.4 billion today. "We're not going to pay $500 million for one helicopter. Period," Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, declared recently. At $480 million a piece - roughly the price of the 747s fitted as Air Force One - the choppers, part of Lockheed Martin's VH-71 program are "in deep trouble," Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. (See pictures of the Army Reserve...
...incidents. Last year's biggest ferry disaster occurred on June 21 in the Philippines, when the MV Princess of the Stars foundered and capsized, taking almost 800 lives. More people died in that accident than in the largest air-travel disaster in history - the 1977 runway collision between two 747s in Tenerife, Spain, which killed 583 people. (Read "How to Survive a Disaster...
...soon? Journalists don’t have international licensing or unions, and information doesn’t come with the guarantee that “no journalists were harmed.” How many local fixers have sacrificed themselves for a story, while their employers were cruising home on 747s...
...preaching about global warming? -Mandy Johnson, Des Moines, IowaI could sell the airline and those planes would carry on damaging the environment, or I could pledge 100% of the profits-which I have done-to developing clean fuels. Next year we plan to fly one of our 747s using a clean fuel to prove it can be done...