Word: 45s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomber flies it is 205 miles from Fort Worth to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. Last week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted...
...time went by, Hangman Woods was more & more disturbed by the way the German people began to look at him. He took to packing two .45s, remarked loudly, "If some German thinks he wants to get me, he better make sure he does it with his first shot, because I was raised with a pistol in my hand." Once, just after chow in an Army mess, he turned violently ill, was certain the German cooks had poisoned him. He was delighted when the Army returned him to the U.S., felt better still last March when it shipped him half...
...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...