Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David D. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computing Center, called the present facilities "nearly inadequate." The machine room has had to house five major computers and cannot be properly air-conditioned, he said...
Elated by the results, NASA has ordered the construction of a flight-test version of Whitcomb's wing. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, the wing will be mounted on a modified F-8 jet-fighter and will undergo test flights in the summer of 1970. If the performance measured in Langley's wind tunnel is duplicated in flight, a new generation of more efficient subsonic jets may soon be cruising major U.S. air routes at speeds as high as 645 m.p.h...
...flight, air is forced to flow more quickly over the curved topside than past the flat undersurface. Air pressure above the wing is thereby reduced, and the wing develops lift...
THERE IS so little room for life in this world. Even the Civil Aeronautics Board should cherish it, but it doesn't. The CAB is threatening to end the Youth Fare privileges for travellers from ages 12 to 21. The System is trying to squeeze the life from air travel to the great silver birds can fly in peace...
Ending Youth Fare will be first and foremost a blow to mothers and lovers. It will banish caprice from air travel. There will be no more impulsive flights to mothers' cooking or the arms of sweethearts. The airlines will be surrendered to fat executives and government officials with clenched teeth...