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...Lockheed Electra, with its four jet engines driving propellers, was a hybrid designed to bridge two aviation ages. But its birth in the late 1950s was a painful one. Two of the early Electras lost wings, one over Texas in 1959, the other over Indiana in 1960. Ninety-seven people died. The 400-m.p.h. propjet plane was found to suffer from a "runaway flutter," in which vibration was transmitted from an engine to a propeller and then to a wing, which would sometimes shake loose. Lockheed spent $25 million to modify the design and strengthen the plane. Gradually, most pilots...
...particular Electra, however, managed to revive memories of the aircraft's ominous beginnings. Put into service in 1959, this craft was acquired in 1983 by Galaxy Airlines, a Fort Lauderdale charter service. When John Glenn used it for one trip during his campaign for the Democratic nomination last year, the pilot aborted a landing at Sioux City, Iowa, because of poor visibility and narrowly missed a control tower. A month later, another Democratic candidate, Jesse Jackson, chartered the same Galaxy Electra. On a trip with Jackson from Washington to Dallas last May, the Electra repeatedly shook, dropped and pitched...
...never lost faith in the Galaxy Electra was Allen Heasley, 49, of Coconut Creek, Fla., a veteran charter pilot. He had flown the Navy version in Viet Nam, his wife Dorothy said last week, and the Electra was his "favorite plane...
...outing to Caesars casino on Lake Tahoe, Nev., over Super Bowl weekend. On Sunday many of those who did not fly off to the game attended a Super Bowl party at the casino. The mood of the travelers was light as they took a bus to Reno, where the Electra was waiting for them. At the last minute, Douglas Abalan, 38, and his wife Beverly, dreading the four-hour flight and the 5 a.m. arrival in Minneapolis, checked into Reno's MGM Grand Hotel and played the slot machines. She hit a payoff of $300, then $150. He struck...
...Electra Records made only 15 videos last year; this year it has made 43. The few video holdouts, like Bruce Springsteen, remain exceptions who are becoming increasingly isolated. Almost every major rocker has made a video and sent it into the pipeline: MTV, local and network rock programs and clubs. You can dance as you watch in New York and San Francisco, as well as at the Schaumburg Snuggery. At Flip-It in Bayside, N.Y., customers get a haircut with a jolt of video rock. At the Panic House in West Hollywood, Calif., patrons can eat to videos, which seems...