Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a series of similar crashes shook the entire German military establishment. In 1965 alone, 26 of the Lockheed-designed interceptors, built under license by Messerschmitt, fell out of the sky. The wreck rate was a disastrous 83.6 crashes per 100,000 hours of flying time; the international norm is between 15 and 20 crashes per 100,000 flying hours. One problem was that the Germans turned what had been designed as a fairweather, high-altitude interceptor into a low-altitude, multipurpose fighter-bomber and tried to fly it in the tricky weather of Central Europe. Another difficulty...
...Cuyahoga. If their record is still not good, the city's has been far worse. Whenever it rains hard, the archaic sanitary storm system floods the sewer mains, sending untreated household wastes into the river. Sometimes the old mains break, as recently happened on the Big Creek interceptor line. Each day for the past month, 25 million gallons of raw sewage have cascaded from a ruptured pipe, spilling a gray-green torrent into the Cuyahoga and thence into Lake Erie...
...Rich Musmanno, went for Wynne. Halfback Bill Huling was stopped four yards behind the line of scrimmage with the ball, but 20 yards upfield the three "blockers" were grinding Wynne into the dirt when the play had finished. The ensuing penalty forced Robertson to throw long, where Williamson and interceptor Cobb were waiting...
...Middle East heated up, Hussein began drafting all able-bodied Jordanians between 18 and 40, sent an urgent request to Washington to speed up delivery of 36 promised F-104 interceptor jets, and accepted help from the only Arab leader to come to his aid -Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who offered to put 20,000 troops at Hussein's disposal. The United Nations last week got around to censuring Israel for the original attack, but that was small consolation for Hussein. Jordan's 350-mile border with Israel is just too long to screen, and more...
Draken fighters, a Mach-2.2 all-weather interceptor...