51.   NATO officials reported that clearing weather had enhanced visibility, enabling its aircraft to fly more missions and making it easier to pick out targets.

52.   Now rank-and-file taxpayers would be hard-pressed to even name any active NASA astronauts, although more than four dozen are currently involved in training and flying shuttle missions.

53.   On the day of the invasion of southern France I flew two missions.

54.   Other soldiers flew the missions and fired the weapons during World War II.

55.   Part of the problem, according to the secretary of the Air Force, is that pilots are flying more missions on older aircraft.

56.   Onufrienko has already flown a mission of similar duration.

57.   Pierce flew reconnaissance missions, a dangerous job in its own right, but never had to retrieve a stricken airman.

58.   Pilots lack the fuel and equipment to fly training missions.

59.   Pentagon officials declined Tuesday to discuss whether other reconnaissance missions had been flown off China since then.

60.   Risking combat for the first time since World War II, German air force planes flew reconnaissance missions over Bosnia on Friday in a deployment heavy in symbolism.