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 | | Thanks to highly sophisticated navigational devices that not only pinpoint the aircraft's location within a few feet, but also calculate airspeed, windspeed and other factors relevant to the long descent, the accuracy of the airdrops is about the same as that expected from drops at more normal 500-to-1,500-foot altitudes. |
 | | I never learned his occupation, however, because he fell asleep almost the moment we were strapped into folding hammocks along the sides of the C-130 Hercules aircraft, just in front of four massive one-ton pallets of flour and cooking oil that filled all of the rest of the cargo hold. |
 | | Crewmembers counting missions may have been disappointed, but I was delighted at the prospect of talking to other crewmembers as we waited at Split with the engines finally turned off. |
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