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...Five days later Iran got some of the Hawk missiles and guidance equipment that had been on the shopping list relayed through Businessman Khashoggi. They are said to have been delivered by a DC-8 cargo plane that was once owned by a Miami-based air-transport company. The aircraft took off from Tabriz, Iran, disappeared from radar screens over Turkey, made what was supposed to be a "forced landing" in Israel and later returned to Iran by a circuitous route...
...license. Last week "Chatterbox One" -- so named by local air-traffic controllers because she chatters away on the plane's radio during lessons -- completed her first solo flight, a full circle of the R.A.F.'s Benson airfield in Oxfordshire. When she'd landed, Fergie bounced happily out of the aircraft and phoned Prince Andrew, who, between his wife's giggles, pronounced he was "absolutely delighted." Fergie also received kudos over the radio from her brother-in-law Prince Charles, who was at the base to try out a new plane. Andy, of course, is already a war-seasoned helicopter pilot...
...Force loves its F-16 Falcon jet fighter. It is flying 1,225 of the supersonic aircraft, which are efficient in both aerial dogfights and attacking ground targets. An additional 1,299 of the proven planes, built in Fort Worth by General Dynamics, have been bought by 14 nations. So when the Air Force got set to buy 270 more Falcons, who could object...
...session. They stalled passage of an omnibus spending bill long enough so that the Government began running out of funds and half a million federal workers had to be sent home. Their lost time cost taxpayers an estimated $62 million. But the tactic worked: Congress decreed that the Fairchild aircraft should be given another - year to try to beat out the Cessna...
Though the blast badly damaged the plane's hydraulic controls, Pilot Ampole Ploymekha somehow righted the aircraft and landed safely at Osaka International Airport. Of the 246 passengers and crew, 62 were injured, five of them seriously. Investigators traced the incident to a yakuza (Japanese gangster) who, it is believed, was trying to hide a hand grenade, purchased in Manila as a "souvenir," in the plane's bathroom when the grenade suddenly exploded...