AVIATION
(See also Accidents; Airports)
(Note centered heading below: List by Place)
airplanes (passenger): g99 3/8 6-12
Air Force One: g90 8/8 29
angry passengers: w10 6/15 15; g99 10/22 28
avoiding discomfort: g02 7/8 28; g98 1/8 28; g98 6/22 16
Concorde: g04 6/22 26-27; g02 10/22 31; g89 9/22 28
danger of using personal electronics in flight: g05 2/8 19-20; g99 5/8 28
effect of contrails at night: g 7/07 22
evacuation: g03 7/8 13; g00 9/8 19; g92 5/22 29
exit-row seats: g91 1/22 29
first: g99 3/8 3, 6; g99 11/8 19-20
flight simulators: g00 9/22 24-27
flying private planes: g91 3/8 14-16
fuel quantity: g88 9/22 21
hydrogen-powered: g89 4/22 31
illness from long trips: g93 11/8 29
imitate bird formations: g05 9/8 8-9
maintenance: g02 12/8 7-9; g99 9/8 11-14; g96 3/22 9-10; g88 2/8 29
passenger alone on 747 from Tokyo to London: g89 6/8 29
pilots and alcohol: g91 4/8 29
pilots and cataracts: g 5/06 14
pilot’s checklist: w13 3/15 13
pollution from: g90 12/8 28
powered by household batteries: g 4/07 30
preventing clots due to sitting: g01 7/22 28
radiation danger: g90 5/22 28
reducing risks as passengers: g03 7/8 12-13; g02 12/8 10-11; g99 3/8 11; g93 1/8 25-27; g91 6/8 29
safety: g02 12/8 3-12; g99 3/8 10-12
seat belts: g98 9/22 29
thrust: g88 9/22 21
use in field ministry: bt 6; jv 357, 499
violent passengers: g97 10/8 28
viruses carried by: g97 11/22 29
Voyager circles earth without refueling: g87 3/22 30
wings modeled on seagull: lc 12-13; g 9/06 5, 7
wings modeled on whale flippers: lc 12; g 9/06 4-5
airships:
possible improvement for famine relief: g86 8/22 31
zeppelins: g03 6/8 30; g02 10/22 10-14
air traffic control: g 4/08 13-15
balloons: g02 3/8 14-17; g99 3/8 5
Balloon Fiesta (Albuquerque, U.S.A.): g04 3/8 17-19
use in war: g 10/07 22-23
bird collisions: g92 5/8 31; g90 5/8 29; g87 9/22 29
effect of painted eyes: g87 4/22 31
New York’s Kennedy Airport: g87 10/22 30
Tokyo’s Haneda Airport: g88 10/22 29-30
children flying alone: g88 5/22 9
close calls: w88 6/1 3; g86 9/22 30
deaths: g89 9/8 28
during flight: g89 1/8 29-30
disasters: g04 10/22 28-29
Aeroflot crash (Siberia, 1994): g94 9/22 28-29
AN-124 transport (Siberia, 1997): w98 4/15 3
caused by misunderstandings: g97 12/8 28
Concorde (France, 2000): g02 10/22 31
first-person account “My Agony on Flight 232” (1989): g90 12/22 25-27
first-person account “Terror on Flight 811” (1989): g89 11/8 14-16
Japan air disaster (1985): g86 8/8 4; g86 12/22 29
Korean Air Flight 801 (Guam, 1997): g98 3/22 23-25
Nigeria air disaster (2012): yb13 29-30
Pan Am Flight 103 (Scotland, 1988): g90 3/8 30; w89 4/15 28; g89 7/22 14-15
TWA Flight 800 (U.S., 1996): g97 2/22 32
discussion: g99 3/8 3-12
experiences: km 8/10 6
Alaska villages: w94 4/15 21-26
Canada villages: w98 4/15 25-26
emergency landing: g04 5/8 10-11
leaflets scattered: w91 11/1 26-27
magazines distributed: w89 2/15 27
military officer witnessed to: w90 1/1 5-6; w87 10/15 25
priest accepts two books: w90 11/15 19
fear of flying: g03 8/8 30; g02 12/8 4-5, 9-12; g00 4/8 30; g99 3/8 12; g88 9/22 21-23
helicopters: g93 3/8 12-14
commuter: g99 3/8 9
hummingbirds compared with: g87 10/8 16-17
personal: g92 10/8 28
pressure gauge for rotor blades: g86 11/22 25
history: g99 3/8 3-9; g99 11/8 19-20
balloons: g02 3/8 14-15, 17; g99 3/8 5
Wright, Orville and Wilbur: g 3/10 4; w00 2/1 3
zeppelins: g03 6/8 30; g02 10/22 10-14
importance of one second during landing: g88 5/22 29; g88 10/22 28
jet lag: g98 10/8 29; g86 6/8 19-21
chart on overcoming: g86 6/8 19
Lord Kelvin’s comment on impossibility: w86 5/15 3
microwave-powered aircraft: g88 5/8 30
press flown to Colombia branch: yb90 124-127
Shinto priest blesses jumbo jet: g89 8/8 29
sleepy pilots: g87 4/22 30
smoking on airplanes:
ban in Australia: g88 4/8 29
ban in U.S.: g90 1/22 28
effect on aircraft: g86 7/8 14
nonsmoking areas unsafe: g89 7/22 31
recommendation to ban: g89 7/22 31; g86 7/8 14
terrorism: g86 6/22 3-10
deaths due to: g89 9/8 28
efforts to thwart: g91 8/8 29
Pan Am Flight 103 (Scotland, 1988): g90 3/8 30; w89 4/15 28; g89 7/22 14-15
use in war: g 10/07 22-23
fighter aircraft: g87 10/22 30; g86 11/22 31
List by Place
Australia:
ban on smoking: g88 4/8 29
Flying Doctor: g90 8/8 16-19
roundups by aircraft: g98 2/22 29
Europe:
delays from inefficient air-traffic control: g93 3/8 29; g90 1/8 28-29
Soviet Union:
hydrogen-powered airliner: g89 4/22 31