European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes wednesday. December 24,1986 voyager s global flight sets records from Page 1 thumbs up and slapped on a Cowboy Hal before leaving the cockpit. The couple were to be taken 10 the base Hospital for checkups As International aviation officials checked the plane to make certain it indeed had Down non Slop. The flight had been repeatedly delayed amid warnings thai if it did t take off by mid december its next Opportunity would be in the Spring. Yeager had the flu when Ilu plane look off at 8 . Dec. 14 from Edwards dragging its fuel heavy wings on the desert runway an shaving ill a am a foot off each styrofoam wingtip. On the second Day of the Light con Cerns Aboul fuel consumption arose a voyager went farther than expected to avoid a typhoon near Guam but the typhoon provided an assist with powerful tailwinds and ii turned out a faulty fuel gauge had misled the Crew into thinking they might run out of Gas. On Mon Iii. Aircraft designer flu Trulan the Pilot s brother said the plane had enough fuel 10 Fly on to new York and beyond if Lii v wished. The storms fuel fears and fatigue from several successive Days cramped news briefs into a phone Booth size Cabin also led to engine overheating when the pilots for got to Check Oil pressure Tor nearly a Day and a half bin they quickly solved hat dec. 20 by hand pumping 1.7 quarts of Oil into the engine. Early tuesday the engine stalled and voyager lost 3,400 feet of Altitude before its other engine could be started. Whenever you re Over water an you be got no engine in s serious spokesman Peter Riva said. Voyager dropped from an Altitude of 8,900 feet to 5,500 feel during the 90-second engine failure caused by a vapor lock he said. Fuel leaked into the cockpit during the ordeal forcing the pilots to put on oxygen masks to prevent being overcome by fumes Riva said. Rutan and Yeager cleared a fuel line and restarted the front engine which had been shut Down to conserve fuel spokes Man Mark Green Borg said. The fuel mixture setting for the rear engine was changed and he engine was restarted he said. There was too Little Gas coming through the intakes arc Enburg said. It caused the engine to shut Down. Rulan was practising emergency procedures at the Lime. It could not have happened Al a belter Lime Riva said. The incident occurred about 2 15 . Post As the plane made its Way North Ward toward the Pacific coast of the United states said arc Enburg. When the super Light plane left this Mil itary base about 60 Miles North of los Angeles it scraped off the lips of its fuel Laden wings. But it continued on across the Pacific and Indian oceans Africa the Atlantic and Central America before reaching the Pacific again and turning North toward Home. Rulan and Yeager sidestepped a Pacific typhoon were battered by turbulence Over Africa and he mid Atlantic and were plagued by uncertainty Over How much fuel they had left. The voyager Crew faced a minor Emer gency monday afternoon when an electrical pump used to draw fuel from eight tanks on the right Side of he Craft failed he said. The problem was circumvented by carefully switching valves thai enabled the fuel pump on the rear engine to draw fuel directly from the right Side bypassing he faulty Transfer pump. Planners had worried Aboul fuel re serves after realizing a gouge apparently was jiving inaccurate readings. Technicians had to rely on fuel estimates after that. Rulan and Yeager started working on the voyager project in 1981. They formed a corporation to develop the Craft which was funded through corporals sponsors and individual Dona Lions. Voyager smashed the previous fuelled distance record of 12,532 Miles set by an air Force b-52 bomber in 1962. The key to the voyager s Range was is extremely lightweight construction efficient engines and a design emphasizing efficiency Over Speed and Comfort. The wings and fuselage were built entirely of a non Metal Graphite Honey comb. The front and rear engines were used Only until the plane was Light enough to shut Down the less efficient front engine. The cockpit and Cabin frequently de scribed As about the size of a Telephone Booth allowed just enough room for the off duty Pilot to lie Down. Burt Rutan known for his unconventional aircraft designs predicted that bythe turn of the Century similar technology will be used widely As a result of the enthusiasm Genera led by asked Why he decided to go after the global flight often described As aviation s last great goal he said mainly it was my calculations that it was Possi 2 terrorists sentenced in 81 attack on of base Dusseldorf Germany up two members of the red army faction were con Vic cd tuesday of complicity in the Auto bomb attack five years ago on the . Air Force s european Headquarters that injured 17 people. After an 11-month trial the court sentenced Helmut Pohl 42, to life in prison and Stefan Frey 26, to 4vi years. Pohl was convicted of attempted murder. Both were found guilty of membership in a terrorist organization the red army faction for Merly known As the Baader minho of gang. The red army faction which has earned out a series of assassinations bombings and Bank robberies since the late 1960s, took responsibility for the attack on aug. 31, 1981, on Ramstein a in Kaiser Lautem the european Headquarters of the . Air Force. The terrorist group said it planted the bomb in an automobile in a base parking lot because Ramstein is the launching pad for a War in the third it said the base was being used for imperialist wars. The blast injured 15 airmen and two German civilians. Sakharov Back in Moscow criticizing soviet policies Moscow a Andrei Sakharov return Edlo Moscow tuesday from nearly seven years of internal exile and picked up where he left off before his banishment criticizing soviet policies in Afghanistan and demanding Freedom for 65-year-old Nobel laureate and physicist who helped develop the first soviet Hydrogen bomb said he planned to work on space research for the soviet and his wife Yelena Bonner arrived at Yaroslavsky train station about 7a.m. After an eight hour trip from Gorky a City closed to for Eigners Aboul 250 Miles East of Moscow where they had been exiled. The couple was surrounded by More than 100journalists, including a soviet television Crew when they stepped off the , wearing a fur hat and Parka smiled occasionally while speaking 10 reporters in rus Sian for about 20 minutes. Bonner 63. Looked thin and Pale and sat quietly on the Side of the platform. Asked about the soviet presence in Afghani sum Sakharov said i consider this the most painful part of our foreign policy and 1 Hope there will be More decisive measures taken id that sphere than Are being taken Al Winner from Page 1 asked if she could Lake her new Bike with her to Paris to spend the holidays with relatives. Bunji Wilkerson 12, who won a Bike for his entries in the 8-12 age category said he did t think much of his chances of winning. Would t you know it the first year he enters his Lille sister accidentally lays a Marker on his in tended masterpiece it soaks through the paper and messes it up. But some White correction fluid and a bit of skillful colouring fixed that Well enough to win first prize and a new father. Staff sol. 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Reagan said that until his former aides vice .Jobn m. Poindexter and u. Col. Oliver North Dis close what they knew of the arms Deal and skimming of profits for nicaraguan rebels no one will know the fut Story. The president said a report to the committee Lack ing their testimony will Noi have All the but it will be the most Complete statement Avail Able and i Call on the committee to release it so the american people can judge for opening his remarks to a group of people in Small business with a comment on the Iran scandal Reagan said i m trying to find out too what was done by his staff after he secretly approved the Sale of weapons to . Poindexter and col. North make pub Lic disclosure of the facts the american people will no know the full Story of what happened in the Iran arms sales matter or the alleged diversion of funds to the contras Reagan said. However that does t mean thai substantial portions of the facts As gathered thus far cannot be made fire from Page 1 found Anna Batsch amid smoke and flames. The Tady walked out of her apartment tight through the flames and smoke and then went Back in and came out with her dog semitic said. My partner grabbed Herand i took the dog and we got out of Schutte said Fryburger wanted to go Back to see i anyone else was left in the apartment but the flames and smoke were just too nine residents and the woman believed to be in her 60s, were treated at the site and fire which started on the lop floor is under Mannheimer Morgen newspaper estimated the damage at 300,000 Marks about 1150,000 but said damage was minimized and lives were saved thanks to the two said it was a Good Way for him to end his four year stint with the was my last night an the Road and a Nice Way to end up things by saving people s
