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...worldwide market for airliners between now and the year 2001 is expected to be an astronomical $280 billion. To snare a hefty share of it, aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are scrambling to roll out new jets that are bigger, quieter and more fuel efficient...
...limited to "combat support" roles. But in an era when combat no longer occurs on clear-cut front lines, supported by a rear echelon, these rules, established after World War II, have created some peculiar quandaries. While Linde and her female colleagues are not permitted to fly fighter aircraft, Air Force women regularly pilot KC-135 tankers that refuel the fighters and make an even more tempting target for enemy missiles. Though women are banned from Navy destroyers, they may support and supply vessels that steam in dangerous waters. Women piloted tankers in the 1986 air strike on Libya...
...Force will allow women aboard high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird...
...ships had been shadowed by three Soviet vessels and Soviet reconnaissance aircraft ever since entering the Black Sea through the Turkish Straits on Wednesday...
Nofziger also was found guilty of illegally lobbying the White House for continued production of the Air Force's A-10 aircraft for Fairchild Republic Corporation and a policy of putting civilians on Navy support ships...