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...pilot must swivel horizontally for ordinary flight. One reason why not just any eager young pilot should fly a Harrier, says British Air Commodore Paddy Hines, is that it must often fly at be tween 250 and 500 ft. - an exercise demanding "high concentration and a very hard work load from its pilots." Two-thirds of the R.A.F. Harrier pilots had at least 1,000 flying hours on other aircraft before they were selected for Harrier training. Those with less than 1,000 hours are called "first tourists" - and generally fly Harriers with a more experienced pilot in the other...
...utility's system to begin with, said the agency. "The design of the transmission network and the protective devices designed to protect the system were inadequate." Then, said the FPC, when lightning bolts struck the system, Con Ed failed to employ emergency measures in time to shed sufficient load, did not put into operation all of its stand-by generating units and did not tell its customers quickly enough to cut their use of power. FPC Chairman Richard L. Dunham called the blackout "clearly intolerable," and his agency recommended ten immediate actions by Con Ed to prevent a recurrence...
...night of the blackout, the New York metropolitan area was sweltering under a blanket of hot, humid air. With air conditioners whirring everywhere and electrical load high-though still far below the levels expected later this summer-Con Ed was importing from neighboring utilities about one-third of the electricity it was delivering to its customers. That in itself was not unusual. In the battle to keep its rates from soaring even higher. Con Ed has lately been buying more and more electricity from nearby companies that can provide cheaper power. Yet what made Con Ed especially vulnerable that soggy...
...lightning knocked out yet another line. Worse still, circuit breakers designed to reset automatically after the enormous voltage surge caused by a lightning bolt apparently failed to close. By now the utility had suffered a massive loss of some 2,000 megawatts-more than a third of its electrical load that night...
Systems from Boston to Los Angeles protect themselves with tie-ins to multistate power pools and with automatic "load shedding" controls that temporarily cut off some customers when overloads threaten. Yet New York too relied on those devices, and they were not enough...