Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes out of Langley, our Super Sabre whooshed over Virginia's Dismal Swamp to the cirrus-dappled air over North Carolina's Chowan River. This area was set aside for acrobatics, cleared of other aircraft. In the Super Sabre, Brett could have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power...
...rose from the top of the floating balloon and transmitted radio signals that were audible 60 miles away. A stroboscopic light started flashing so brightly that it could be seen for 20 miles. A fluorescent dye spread over the water, making a patch of bright color to attract search aircraft. As a final touch, a shark-repelling chemical dissolved in the water. Sharks are fascinated by the recovery apparatus, and a nip from one of them could send the whole thing to the bottom...
What caused the sudden rise is the research explosion that started in 1947, and continues today. Companies hired so many scientists, technicians and other professional workers to plan, develop and help produce new products that in some industries, such as aircraft and electronics, 30% or more of all workers are now technically classed as nonproduction employees. The automation that has led to a reduction in production workers has also brought an expanded need for engineers, technicians, clerks, personnel experts...
...world of commercial aviation, U.S. piston aircraft have long been dominant. Around the world, the fields are loaded with thousands of U.S. planes, from the 22-year-old DC-3s to the Super Constellations and DC-7s. In the jet age, U.S. planemakers also plan to dominate the air. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. rolled out its 176-passenger DC-8 for its first flight. With an escort of two jet chase planes to observe and take pictures, a veteran Douglas test crew took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h...
...Australia clear round the world. In barely ten years, Australia's Qantas* has grown from a pouch baby into the world's ninth biggest international carrier, traveling some 15 million miles annually with 167,350 passengers. Last week Qantas was poised for still another leap. To Lockheed Aircraft went orders and options for six big Electra turboprop transports costing $15 million, 75% of which will be financed by U.S. banks. Also on order: seven Boeing 707 jets worth $50 million. Slated for service in the fall of 1959, the new planes will make Qantas the first foreign line...