European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 28, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Hazelwood jeopardized Crew expert says Anchorage. Alaska a an expert witness against Joseph Hazelwood gave jurors a scenario of possible death and destruction that could have resulted from the skipper s efforts to free the Exxon Valdez from a jagged reef. I Corgi in cinch or. A retired coast guard Captain testified monday that the engine room could have hooded killing Crew members below. He said that a Elwood risked their lives by trying to drive the 987-foot ship off Bligh reef. Defense attorneys attacked Greiner s testimony As inaccurate and elicited his Concession that the ship could t move anywhere after it struck the reef and unleashed the nation s worst Oil spill. No one was Hurt in the Accident. The Exxon Valdez spewed nearly 11 million Gallons of Oil into Pristine Prince William sound killing countless Birds fish and other wildlife and blackening hundreds of Miles of Rocky Shore. Hazelwood. 43, a Veteran Seaman from Huntington n.y., is accused of being drunk and acting recklessly before the Accident by leaving the ship s Bridge and after the Accident by trying to run the Tanker off the reef. If convicted on All counts he could receive up to 7v years in prison and $61.000 in fines. The testimony came As the trial entered its fourth week. Prosecutors planned to rest their Case tuesday. Or cinch spent 33 years in the coast guard. We dressed soldiers of future May Wear spider silk weaving l a. Arm res Cher Stephen Lombard has Iso ult to the spider s Gene that produces silk. Boston a until recently the army has kept quiet about a scientist s Success in engineering the Gene for spider silk into a bacteria that produces a fiber stronger than a silkworm s silk indeed far stronger than steel. Now the secret is out. The military Hopes to use the new fabric for bulletproof vests helmets Parachute cords and other Strong Light equipment. And the folks on new York s seventh Avenue May want to take notice silk stockings May come Back too. The silk Industry has Long relied on the costly and time consuming farming of silkworms a cultural and commercial tradition in China and Japan for centuries. But the mass production of spider silk May some Day mean a decline in the Cost of commercial silk according to Stephen Lombard the 28-year-old civilian molecular biologist credited with the invention. Right now they re still using the old Way of doing it with a lot of Man hours spent babysitting silk Worms lombards said. This process is very Sim ple and cheap. Our intent was to mass produce Large quantities of silk cheaply and there s no reason Why the general Public should t have Access to the tech  that technology refers to Lombardi s Success in isolating the Gene that produces silk in the Golden orb Weaver spider and engineering the Gene into bacteria. The bacteria in turn produces a spider silk protein. Until now spiders have never been an efficient source of silk production. Unlike silkworms they have not been domesticated and rarely can be kept alive Long enough to produce quantities of silk. But with Lombardi s process no spiders arc needed. Jack Shamash president of the new York based Shamash & sons the country s largest silk import ers says the idea that spider silk could replace silk Worms is a lot of  the United states has virtually no silk production and therefore lacks the needed network of factories and weavers to transform available spider silk into fabrics he said. You la have to build a whole billion Dollar Indus try said Shamash. I very much doubt it could displace silk on the open  Lombard countered that his method of producing spider silk involves sophisticated biotechnology but would t require new factories or weavers. Existing fiber spinning technology could be used or the spi Der silk he  silk has five to 10 limes the tensile strength of steel and can be stretched about 18 percent with out breaking. Because of its toughness spider silk is Likely to replace Kevlar As the military s Choice for bulletproof vests. Lombard said. Spider silk is also envisioned for Parachute Cord ing Light tents uniforms and even some fiber optic material. And while silk Bull proof vests Mav not sound very1 Macho to the average american Soldier. Lombard said they will be More lightweight and even More effective. Remember there Are species of spiders in Mada Gascar that can ensnare Small  he said. It s a Tough  Low Cost lightweight combat Jet makes debut by the Ink Angeles times Mojave. Calif. Aircraft designer Burt Rutan rolled out and demonstrated his latest creation Mon a an experimental Jet fighter with such potential missions As shooting Down enemy helicopters or drug Laden cargo planes. The lightweight Casy to Maiman plane proved its Agilio in a 10-Mmuie demonstration flight that marked Only the fifth Lime the sleek Gray White and Blue aircraft has been flown. It handled real  Pilot dou0 Shane said. It s very Maneu Scrable. Extremely agile the aircraft was Noi paid for by the Pentagon and ils design was not dictated by the military. It laces tremendous potential  one defense official said. Any Lime you have somebody with new and creative ideas it is hard for the bureaucracy to accept  hut Rutan is hardly regarded As an outsider within his Industry. The group of aeronautical experts who journeyed to his Small hangar at the Moi ave Airport included Northrop b-2 bomber designer John Cashen and Mai. Gen. John p. Schoppner. Commander of the flight test Center at Edwards air Force base. But Schoeppner was not there to officially represent the air Force. He came just to see the newest design by Rutan. Whose reputation has grown since he designed the record breaking voyager aircraft that flew around the world without refuelling. Rutan has worked on the aircraft for nearly four years at his tiny scaled composites inc. He spent less Ihan $ million to design and build the aircraft. Called inc ares for agile responsive effective sup port the aircraft boasts a number of unusual Fea Tures including an asymmetrical design. The Jet engine air Inlet is on the right Side of the aircraft and the engine is canted 8 degrees from the it Cost Burt run less than 52 million in design and build his twin tailed arcs combat Jet fighter. Center line of the aircraft. The cockpit is positioned 3 inches to the left of the Center line of the fuselage. The aircraft is designed to have 25mm Cannon or air to air and air to ground missiles mounted internally on the right Side of the aircraft thus preventing Cannon smoke from being ingested into the engine intake on the left Side. Smoke ingestion is a major problem on combat aircraft. It is designed to Fly at altitudes As Low As 100 feet avoiding ground fire and attack by More sophisticated Jet fighter. The Jet is designed to land in austere air Fields or on roads if airports arc blown up. The aircraft has a Gross weight of 6.500 pounds of which 33 percent is fuel a High percentage for a fighter. It is 2x.6 feet Long and has a we Span of 35 feet. The maximum level night Speed is 460 Miles per hour. The twin tailed aircraft is powered by a single Turbofan engine la is made of composites non Metal Lic materials such As Graphite which Are Strong but not As heavy As traditional aviation metals. The plane s most distinctive feature is a Rutan Spe Fialty a canard or Small Wing emerging from the fuse Lage Forward of the main Wing