"In outdoor meets," Warmerdam once recalled, "we had very bad runways.
Taking into account both the challenge and the redeem-a-bad-look runway, some of the other results are puzzling.
They were not bad, but the runway, frankly, seemed more of an afterthought to the setting.
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During a crisis "plan beats no plan", jury-rigged measures in the face of unavoidable disaster are "foam on the runway", and bad outcomes are "dark".
A battery of lenses focused on the finale, when Lindsay Lohan, Hollywood star, music maker and current bad girl, walked the runway, blonde hair swishing, as the brand's new creative director.
Flying at Benalla was hampered by bad weather, and the runway was unusable from September to November 1941, necessitating the detachment of over 250 personnel to Essendon, home of No. 3 EFTS, to continue their training.
On the other hand, it could be argued that airlines and airports can control their response to bad weather by sweeping runways and updating their monitoring and other technology.
Bad weather, congestion on the runway, hamstrung air-traffic control, computer failures and the late arrival of the incoming flight all turn air travel into a lottery.
Worse things than we knew at first, and what we knew — a stolen truck hurtling toward the runway — had been bad enough.
