Word: aero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KAISER MOTORS will make only face-lifting changes on its Kaiser, Henry J, Jeepster and Aero...
...beach watched him make his flights: two passes over the course in each direction to average out the wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July 27) by considerably more than...
...Germandom and the despair of all its neighbors. August's steel production equaled Britain's (or a rate of 17 million tons a year). Unemployment fell below the 1,000,000 mark for the first time since the war. In Stuttgart, five industrialists formed a new "Aero Union" that would leap into production as soon as the Allies remove controls from German aircraft industry-some time next year. The names of their firms: Messerschmitt, Dornier, Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and Daimler-Benz...
...rising currents were tricky . . . and I didn't want to take any risks." Then he flew back to the Herts & Essex Airplane Club and stepped out on to the tarmac, a splendid, grey-haired figure (6 ft. 2 in.) in blue blazer and the wings of the Royal Aero Club. "I feel absolutely marvelous, marvelous," he said, ticking off the bridges as if they were fallen Fokkers...
...automobile with a magnesium body that weighs only 132 lbs. (v. a minimum 650 Ibs. for a steel car body). Designer K. J. Cross, managing director of Britain's Essex Aero, Ltd., believes that magnesium bodies are far superior to plastic, which take longer to fabricate. The lightness of magnesium bodies makes possible higher speeds and quicker acceleration for cars Cross hopes to have his magnesium car in production for export to the U.S some time this year. Price: around...