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...opening gun. But many experts still like Columbia, and 51-year-old Skipper Cunningham, with an eye toward the bad weather that often roils New England waters in late September, feels that "heavy weather is Columbia's long suit." He admits his yacht is weakest with the wind astern but adds, "she's a bear cat to windward." And the saying goes that if a boat can go to windward better than the others, she does not have to do anything else. When polled, six experts who have seen all the races had some interesting observations...
...roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported by the lift of its wings and controlled by its conventional ailerons and tail surfaces...
...boundary layer control." After elaborate tests with models in wind tunnels, Northrop engineers fitted the wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even when the power consumed by the pump was added as drag. A more advanced system with 69 slots worked even better...
...below the horizon, lay sleeker seamen such as Scientist Vannevar Bush, an old Pentagon hand, and Distinguished Citizen Nelson A. Rockefeller; they thought that Wilson ought to save money and step up efficiency by making some sort of single service out of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Astern of Wilson even the signals from the flagship were unclear after Dwight Eisenhower said that tighter interservice unification perhaps could produce "considerable" savings, even though the present budget was "a bare minimum...
...onto the port wing of the bridge, he saw the sight he would never forget. Before him in the dark Atlantic loomed the brightly lighted shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come a collision," testified Carstens-Johannsen, still even-voiced, still calm. "It was a collision situation. I had to stop my ship." At 11:09 p.m. the ships collided, as he saw it, thus...