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...those expressed a quarter of a century ago when his uncle, Prince Andrew, then also 22, prevailed against opponents who feared that his participation in the Falklands conflict could prove at best a distraction and, at worst, a liability to his colleagues. Instead, as a helicopter pilot on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, he acquitted himself with honor during an episode that he described in an interview with TIME as "an adventure...
...Tokyo these days, it's 1989 all over again. The city's real estate market is healthy once more. Down the street from the chic office/shopping/residential complex of Roppongi Hills, a sweeping new glass-and-steel national art museum has just opened, with galleries the size of aircraft hangars. Massive-and massively expensive-Hummer suvs squeeze through the city's capillary-sized streets, ferrying the wealthy to new clubs and bars like Roppongi's Crystal Lounge, which features crystal-encrusted replicas of Michelangelo's David and the Venus de Milo. Corporate Japan's balance sheet has never been stronger...
...pilots speak warily of "golden BBs" that can bring down their bird. There are a fair number of bull's-eyes on those spindly mechanical beasts - rotor blades, fuel systems, driveshafts, hydraulic lines - that, if hit, can doom a helicopter. Many of them don't exist on fixed-wing aircraft, or are better protected on the faster machines...
...General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told a Senate panel Tuesday before the latest loss. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of AK-47s in greater Baghdad. Other Pentagon officials wonder if the insurgents have gotten hold of a fresh batch of SA-7 Grail shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. While a primitive heat-seeker, its range of more than three miles is bound to find its target occasionally. Pace didn't have a quick solution...
...that caught up with us, or [has] there been a change tactics, techniques and procedures on the part of the enemy," he said. Whether it's guns or missiles, Pace added, U.S. helicopter crews are being briefed on the threat "so that the pilots that continue to fly those aircraft have the latest information we have...