民用變軍用的主角:
• 767-200ER: This model seats 224 passengers in two classes; 181 passengers under a three-class configuration.
• 767-300ER: This model seats 269 in two classes and 218 in three classes and has a range capability of 6,115 nautical miles;
• 767-400ER: Seats 304 passengers in two classes, or 245 passengers in a three-class configuration with a range of up to 5,645 nautical miles.
• More than 26 airlines use the 767.
#############################################
平衡全球武力結構的奇型建築:
• Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense (Army, Navy and Air Force)
• Five-sided building in Arlington County, Virginia, covering 34 acres.
• Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom.
• Built 1941-43 at a cost of $83 million.
• Has five floors and is built of structural steel and reinforced concrete.
• Building has five concentric pentagons or rings.
• Large concourse within it for Pentagon workers.
• One of the world's largest office buildings with three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York.
• 3.7 million square feet of usable floor space for approximately 23,000 people.
#############################################
由讚嘆轉為追憶的紐約景點:
• The World Trade Center had two 110-story buildings, known as the "Twin Towers" and five smaller buildings.
• Tower One was 1,368 feet (414 meters) tall
• Tower Two was 1,362 feet (412 meters) tall
• The Twin Towers were the tallest until the Sears Tower surpassed them.
• Architects: Minoru Yamaski & Associates and Emery, Roth & Sons.
• Built of aluminum and steel.
• The foundation of each tower extended more than 70 feet below ground, resting on solid bedrock.
• Constructed on six acres of landfill.
• The towers were the best known examples of "tube buildings," which are strenghtened by closely spaced columns and beams in the outer walls.
• Each tower consisted of 104 passenger elevators and 21,800 windows.
• About 50,000 people worked in the complex, which housed the offices of more than 430 businesses from 26 countries.
• Completed in 1970.
• Automatic window-washing machines cleaned 600,000 square feet of glass.
Source: World Trade Center and PBS