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Trailing close behind for the second straight year is Match 1a with 559 people. This six vote margin is a slight improvement over last year's four vote edge...
...large group which avoided elementary Nat. Sci. courses in favor of two lab courses was credited with placing Chemistry 1, 2, and 20, and Physics 1a and 12a high on the list...
Only 70 seconds before the B-29 crew was to release the plane, an explosion ripped through the X-1A. The blast shook up Pilot Joseph Walker, but he carefully turned off cockpit switches, began jettisoning the rocket's highly volatile fuel (hydrogen peroxide, liquid oxygen, alcohol, water). Then he crawled groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks...
...fastest (1,650 m.p.h.) and highest-flying (90,000 ft.) airplane on record came to a violent end last week. The chunky, rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series of routine rolls, climbs and pushups above California's Mojave Desert. As usual, a Sabre jet fighter flew behind as a watchdog "chase" plane...
Though the X-1A was the only one left of its kind, the Air Force still has two modified versions of the record-shattering plane in the X-1B and X-1E, and only three days after the mishap, it announced that its far more advanced experimental Bell X2, already tested in glides from 30,000 ft., is now ready for even faster powered flight through the "thermal thicket." Launched, like the X-1A, from a mother plane, and pushed by a rocket engine designed to give a 16,000-lb. thrust, the slim-nosed, stainless steel X-2 will...