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...plane on autopilot doesn't hold up, critics say, citing evidence showing the jet changed course near the last point it was sighted -- an impossibility if the plane was on automatic. TIME's Mark Thompson says the plane's course does not necessarily support the theory of an aircraft heist. "Air Force people are saying the plane's circular motion could have been due to the fact that the plane only had about 90 seconds worth of fuel left. And since the plane has two engines, it's highly unlikely they both would have cut out simultaneously. In other words...
...exception to these profligate rules is the Marines. In most cases, they're modifying existing aircraft with new engines and electronics, saving taxpayers gobs of money. Congress may also want to take a lesson from U.S. allies who are stretching their defense dollars. In Europe four nations recently began cracking open 300 F-16 jet fighters like eggs and stuffing them with new electronic components that turn them into the hottest fighters in the sky. At the same time, the U.S. Air Force has sent nearly 400 of those very same $20 million planes to its Arizona junkyard, never...
...NASA administrator Dan Goldin yesterday told the Aero Club of Washington that the current aircraft crash rate is unacceptably high, citing predictions that the number of flying aircraft will triple in 20 years...
...California: Flying a 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch set off on a journey to retrace Amelia Earhart's doomed around-the-world route, sixty years to the day after Earhart took off. Finch, an accomplished pilot with 20 years of experience flying and restoring historic aircraft, will make 30 stops in 20 countries during her 2 1/2 month trip, including Egypt, Greece, Pakistan and Australia. While the plane's cabin will remain unpressurized without oxygen tanks, technology will provide a safety margin to help prevent a duplication of Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will...
Frans Swarttouw, former chairman of the Fokker aircraft company and one of the Netherlands' most colorful businessmen, bid an unusual farewell to his countrymen a few weeks ago. Stricken with throat cancer, the executive, 64, who once characterized an entrepreneur as "a guy who works hard, drinks himself into the ground and chases women," said he had stopped his painful therapy and opted out of a life-saving operation that would have left him an invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death...