Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Twin Peaks (ABC). Has it really been less than a year since FBI agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) first heard the name Laura Palmer? After its stunning two-hour pilot episode, David Lynch's oddball soap opera wavered a bit, wafted into mysticism and dragged out its who-killed-Laura? mystery too long for some impatient viewers. But the show has retained its idiosyncrasy and its hold on the imagination...
Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what we might have done differently." Bush was "quite aware" of the cold war. He talked about it with his father Prescott Bush, who was then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting...
...under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose certain aspects of its investigation into the accident. Most eventually withdrew their actions, but the New York Times has continued to petition for tapes to back up a NASA transcript of cabin conversation. In the official version, the final comment is pilot Michael Smith's "uh-oh," indicating he might have been aware of impending danger. A federal appeals court agreed with NASA that releasing the voice material would constitute an invasion of privacy. George Freeman, a Times lawyer, says the paper has not decided if it will appeal. But a NASA...
...takeoffs been permitted? One pilot traveling as a passenger on the 727 insisted that visibility had been less than a quarter-mile. Francis McKelvey, an airport designer and engineering professor at Michigan State, said it is time for aviation officials to ask "whether you should be operating an airport if you can't see all the surfaces on which aircraft are moving...
Last week's drama began after several Herrera loyalists posing as journalists rented a helicopter, then forced the pilot at gunpoint to fly to the island of Naos off the Panamanian coast, where the colonel was being held in prison. Two guards led Herrera to the helicopter, and once on the mainland he went straight to police headquarters in Panama City. Joined by a force of about 100 men, Herrera issued 11 demands to improve the conditions of the National Police. During the night, a contingent of about 500 U.S. troops surrounded the building. Next morning, as Herrera stepped...