And there would be no home runs flying out of Coors Field either as snow prompted the postponement of Wednesday's night baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and New York Mets.

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This caused him to wind up flying 40 miles past the landing field at Mach 3 (2, 000 mph) before turning back, and only narrowly miss some trees.

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But any hopes they had for gaining a foothold in commercial aviation were dashed when the Commerce Department, under pressure from underemployed male pilots, exiled women from the field by prohibiting them from flying planes carrying passengers in bad weather.

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Flying in formation, they could map the gravitational field of an asteroid or moon by monitoring tiny changes in their relative positions.

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At Franklin Field later in the 1960s, instead of peddling sausage the plane flying overhead towed a banner reading "Joe Must Go" for the ill-starred Joe Kuharich.

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General aviation aircraft flying into or out of three airfields in the DC area -- Potomac Airfield, Hyde Field and College Park Airport -- will be required to stop at Tipton Airfield in Tipton, Maryland, to be screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

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