Word: airflow
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...Phillips Gas & Oil* family of Pennsylvania, sadly admitted defeat after he and his family had poured upwards of $1,000,000 into the venture. Said Phillips: "The American public was not ready for a magazine devoted exclusively to international affairs. World was as untimely as Chrysler was with its Airflow car back...
...Studebaker is the biggest design gamble in the auto industry since Chrysler's Airflow (which was a flop), a test to see whether Americans will buy a semi-sports car in big quantities. In its gamble, Studebaker staked $27 million for new tools, sure that the growing interest in sports cars indicates an entirely new trend in U.S. auto design. From Belgium's annual auto show in Brussels, where the car was first publicly shown last week, came the first evidence that the bet might pay off. Alongside the fanciest cars of Europe and 20 U.S. makes...
...Whittenberger is also directing work on a "pneumatachograph," an apparatus which clocks the amount of airflow and pressure in the breath of polio victims...
...sound with infinite trepidation. The most troublesome speed begins just below Mach I. When a wing is moving at, say, Mach .80, the air passing over it has to hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives too rapidly...
...this point, a frightful thing can happen. The shock wave spoils the airflow over the wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...