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...term experimental aircraft carries an ominous suggestion of danger. If it's experimental, it might still have glitches that could send you plummeting out of the sky in a hurry. Besides, nonmilitary experimental planes are often built from kits out in the pilot's garage or barn. It's pretty obvious that you would need to have a death wish--or at least a reckless soul...
There's a fine line between such worthwhile news photos and so-called "filler," but I believe that the line does exist. Using Monday's paper as an example, I'd classify the photo of the U.S. aircraft landing on a carrier in the Persian Gulf from the Real World page as worthwhile news. Harvard students should know about urgent movements of U.S. troops. On the other hand, the quarter-page photo on page A-6 of that same paper of a Paris fashion show featuring spring 1998 styles was unquestionably filler...
Libya denies that the suspects were its agents and says they had no role in the bombing. It contends that by investigating the case it has fulfilled its obligations under the 1971 Montreal Convention on unlawful acts against aircraft...
...seater aircraft was built by Rutan Aircraft. Owner Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in 1986 made the first non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world in an experimental plane named Voyager...
...aircraft was about 500 feet in the air, and about 100 yards off the coast itself, when the engine quit and it went straight down into the water," said Sheriff Norman Hicks. "It just sort of dove head first, straight down into the water...