But with Madden retired, Collinsworth and Michaels called the marquee wild-card game (Eagles at Cowboys) and NBC opted for the untried threesome of Hammond and two former Redskins -- Joe Gibbs and Joe Theismann -- on the earlier Jets-Bengals game.
Earlier jets bombed rebel positions on the outskirts of the central city of Homs to try to break a siege of an army base housing dozens of soldiers, opposition activists said.
But those early jet passengers had destinations.
While ABC has conspicuously begun to celebrate the early jet age, the Port Authority has begun to tear it down.
During the period of early jet engines (from about 1940 to 1970), design requirements were met by the development of new alloys alone.
The aerodynamic issues in the movie may now be antiquated, but the excitement and beauty of early jet aviation are still irresistible.
Seen in that light, the events of the early jet age are as relevant today as they were half a century ago.
Early jet engines had narrow inlets and were very noisy, but as the diameter of the fans at the front increased, the engines became quieter.
As director of research (1943 46) of the Aerojet Engineering Corporation, Azusa, California, and technical adviser thereafter, he developed some of the earliest jet engines, including the JATO (jet assisted takeoff) units used to launch heavy-laden aircraft from short runways.
During World War II the company produced the legendary Bf 109 (Me 109) fighter and the Me 262, Germany's first operational jet fighter (see military aircraft: Early jet fighters).
