Word: aileron
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...Holidaymakers who normally camp by the side of the highway have begun clustering at night under the lights of service stations and roadhouses as if in Wild West wagon trains. People are afraid to stop on the open road even to relieve themselves, says Greg Dick, owner of the Aileron roadhouse where the couple had their last meal?of toasted sandwiches?together. "Our toilets are doing a roaring trade." But life will go on. Says Pilton: "The public forgets tragedies very quickly, and there's always new people coming in who haven't heard the news." Dick agrees: "I found...
...toward the runway below at the U.S. Navy's Fentress Air Field near Norfolk, Va. Engine open and screaming, gulping in the thick air, the Viper reached max speed of 264 ft. per sec. 20 ft. above the concrete and leveled out for its pass. A faint touch of aileron and the ship rolled on its back. The crowd gasped. Heads swung in unison as the jet knifed by, turned upright and spiraled vertically into the sun, which splintered its bright beams on the wings. As Top Gun slid his plane to a landing 30 ft. in front...
Keep It Low. Much has been made of Intrepid's second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes...
...knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure to keep those planes in the air can be subtly intense. Occasionally, the mechanics slip; in 1961, a Northwest Orient plane's aileron cables were improperly installed, causing a crash that killed...
...worst blows to whole families of any crash ever. In all, there were multiple deaths in ten skating families. Their epitaph was told in the tears of thousands of other skaters around the globe, and by three pairs of melted skates that dangled all day from a crippled aileron...