Word: axial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, however, your hypoxic staffer was understandably carried away by overexposure to so much brass in such rarefied atmosphere. The good greying admiral never could have done a "snap roll" tied to another plane's wing. Slow roll yes, but a snap roll is an axial roll involving a partial stall, and were you to try this maneuver tied wing-to-wing with another fly machine, you would experience a feeling of togetherness which you would never get over. J. SHELDON LEWIS Chief Pilot...
...next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even if he loses to Snodgrass, he can have the $52,500 he had already won. "Completely fair," said Bloomgarden, and stiffened his axial skeleton, from cervical to coccygeal vertebrae, for a return to battle...
...television station will broadcast on a closed circuit. From the studio, 2000 feet of co-axial cable carry the program to the dormitories...
...Gyron is an axial-flow engine, intended for use in supersonic aircraft, while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that...
...axial-flow engine draws in air with a series of compressor blades which send the air to the combustion chamber in a direct line. A centrifugal-flow jet draws in the air with fewer but larger blades, and throws the air out around the circumference of the compressor on its way to the combustion chamber. Since an axial-flow engine has a smaller diameter, it is easier to fit into planes...