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...Yohe is feeling senior blues, he didn't show it last week. Yohe completed 11 of 20 passes for 184 yards and two touchdown passes against Columbia. With 86 yards passing this weekend, Yohe would have 3000 career passing yards. With Air Yohe, the Crimson is a frequent flyer...
While his friends in Oceano, Calif., have been zooming about on bikes and surfboards, Marshall has been taking flying lessons since he was seven. His copilot last week was retired U.S. Navy Flyer Randy ("Duke") Cunningham, 46. A third passenger slipped on board: Marshall's brown teddy bear, named, appropriately enough, Charles Lindbeargh...
Elements of the design are as old as powered flight itself. The original Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer was of the canard type, with a pair of horizontal stabilizers mounted in front of the pilot. Though the shape had certain advantages in slow-speed flight -- it was highly resistant to stalls -- it proved too unstable at high speeds, and was eventually abandoned in favor of aircraft with stabilizers fixed to their tails. Now, with computers available to design planes and with fly-by-wire controls to help steer them, Beech and ) Piaggio have revived the original concept...
Perhaps the biggest headache for the airlines these days is a problem of their own making: frequent-flyer programs. Because of the carriers' competitive frenzy to hand out triple-mileage awards and other incentives, U.S. air travelers have racked up more than $300 million worth of free-travel credit. But now the No. 1 carrier, United, is leading what may become an industry-wide trend toward throttling back the giveaways. Last week the 4.5 million members of United's Mileage Plus program began receiving letters advising that the airline will launch a "new and improved" plan. In fact, the changes...
...played a week after the ECAC women's hockey tournament, was held in Bright Hockey Center and was won by Sasner's team, 6-4...Harvard and Olympic hockey player Lane MacDonald recorded a 30-second spot for the NCAA recently. The message warned against drugs and alcohol...Philadelphia Flyer goalie Ron Hextall's goal last December against the Boston Bruins had a parallel in the college hockey ranks--but better. Jim Tortorella, who played goal for Maine in the late 1970s, scored (get this) a shorthanded goal for the Black Bears while the opposing goalie was still...