Word: aloftness
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...time striking out into the fields he liked best-research and development. His first fighter plane in 1937 was a flying machine-gun nest ; it had twin engines, a 300-m.p.h. top speed, bristled with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five plants around the U.S. in World...
...plants 1,100 miles apart last week, General Dynamics' Convair Division gave the U.S. a peek at two new developments in the deadly art of aerial warfare, one over sea, one over land. From San Diego, Convair's giant R 3 Y-2 Tradewind turboprop transport went aloft as the Navy's newest flying boat tanker, packing enough fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation...
...Jane Greer, whose assignment is to discover why he has stopped writing. Soon Widmark sobs out the terrible truth (while he was shooting lions in Africa, his wife and best friend were making beautiful music together). Jane is so moved that she starts back for Manhattan without her story. Aloft in Widmark's personal plane, the two of them crash in the Yucatan jungle right next to the isolated hacienda belonging to Trevor Howard and two Dutch cronies. Howard says he is an archaeologist but, if so, why are the grounds patrolled by man-eating dogs...
Streamlined as they were, the 58 aircraft gathered outside the little Burgundy village of Saint-Yan (pop. 859) seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...objective in the decisive event was to fly over the Dauphiné Alps to Toulon, some 250 miles south, on the Mediterranean. Paul and his borrowed French Breguet-901 were towed aloft by a powered biplane, released at about 2,500 ft. With the rest of the pack he circled the field and eased gently toward the Alps. Mt. Ventoux (6,011 ft.) separated the men from the boys; many contestants turned back. To Paul, the problem seemed familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached...