Word: b29
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). "Superfort," history of the B29...
...moved on to the wartime atom-bomb project. In 1945 he measured from an airplane the dangerous shock wave of the first atomic test explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex. Later that year he did the same for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, following close behind the bomb-carrying B29...
...release the plane, an explosion ripped through the X-1A. The blast shook up Pilot Joseph Walker, but he carefully turned off cockpit switches, began jettisoning the rocket's highly volatile fuel (hydrogen peroxide, liquid oxygen, alcohol, water). Then he crawled groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks. To avoid a major calamity back at home base, Butchart...
...Bridgeman jockeyed to speed and altitude records (79,494 ft., 1,238 m.p.h.) in 1951 was the third stiletto-nosed, dull white Skyrocket built by Douglas for the Navy.* It could fly for three minutes under full power after it had been dropped from the bomb bay of a B29, but it took weeks to prepare for each 180-sec. flight, including replacing the 15 coats of lacquer burned off in every...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Project scientists first recommended construction of the far-north warning line three years ago. Their estimate of its cost: $1 billion. At a time when the Soviet Union's best long-range bomber was a 300-m.p.h. copy of the U.S. B29, neither the U.S. nor Canada was willing to invest that much in a line 1,800 miles north of. the continent's main industrial centers. Priority went instead to the Pinetree line of radar and fighter control stations north of the U.S. border, and to the mid-Canada line...