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...skills. "Some pilots can get into situations that are so unnatural and frightening that they freeze," says Terry McVenes, deputy chairman of the pilots' union's safety committee. "For example, when the plane goes nose down, it takes a lot of physical strength--and absorbing about 3 Gs--to pull the plane out. If a pilot tries to pull as he's been trained, it's likely it will be too gentle. Then it's too late, and he can't save the plane...
...feel like a 737, makes one realize just how little time a pilot has to react to a crisis. We tried rudder malfunctions, icing problems, wake turbulence and losing all hydraulic power. In one exercise, pilots are told to point the nose almost directly at the ground and then pull like hell out of the dive. Watching the ground get closer in the Learjet's large cockpit windows was frightening; it felt as if it took forever before we started to climb out. In an emergency, even the best pilots have only a few seconds to do the right thing...
...answer, thank goodness, is no. The seemingly paradoxical combination of large informal areas and walled off, elaborate master suites makes perfect sense, says Bernard Beck, a sociologist at Northwestern University. As children have become more powerful and vocal, and present, adults have a greater need to pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want...
Harvard does have recent history on its side. The Crimson has not lost to BC in the regular season in the last ten years, registering nine wins and one tie. BC did pull off a victory when it mattered most, defeating a heavily-favored Crimson team 1-0 in the 1999 NCAA tournament...
...terrifying. Second, we must remember that we cannot always wait for the smoking gun. Instead, we should remember that you never hear the bullet that kills you. If we reserve action until we are absolutely sure that the fellow pointing the gun at us is about to pull the trigger, it may be too late. That was the lesson of Sept...