Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite the TV lights and the press-agentry at a packed Washington press conference, they showed such a basic earnestness and airman's conditioned self-possession, that 200 hard-to-impress capital reporters lustily applauded them. All were veteran test pilots, skilled in wringing out all manner of aircraft for the design engineers. Three were naval officers (two Annapolis graduates), three from the Air Force (no West Pointers), and one was-as he put it-"a lonely marine." Obviously the selectors of the seven had remembered the separate services, and in the flood of applicants for the first trip...
...component of the space capsule: communications system, propulsion, instrumentation, etc. To toughen up for the physical trials and psychological terrors of space, they will spend hours in low-pressure chambers, wind tunnels, human cocktail shakers; they will be jolted on supersonic rocket sleds, flown in balloons and supersonic aircraft and eventually test-rocketed by Army Redstone missiles at 4,000 m.p.h. more than 100 miles from Cape Canaveral down the Atlantic firing range...
...Force's Atlas ICBM, will get a series of tests, with animals riding the capsules in some flights. After Astronauts and vehicle have checked out so that chances of successful probe and return are 96% to 98% -the same as the maiden flight of any experimental aircraft-the day of flight will be set. On that day the first man will be designated...
...Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...
...firm's first "glamour" underwriting came in 1952, when Venture Capitalist Laurance Rockefeller chose it to help market the stock of his Marquardt Aircraft. Another opportunity came when Unterberg, Towbin became interested in American Research & Development Corp., a venture capital firm that had invested in a number of exciting looking companies but was having trouble getting market recognition. The partners decided to help by making a market for the stocks, acquired an inventory of shares to trade. Because there was a public market in their securities, companies such as Air borne Instruments, Machlett Laboratories and Midwestern Instruments found that...