Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANDY GREEN Dept. of Dumb Records. So what if a jet plane on wheels breaks the sound barrier? The Wrong Stuff...
Fifty years after he did it first, he did it again. Chuck Yeager, the enduring symbol of flyboy coolheadedness under pressure, broke the sound barrier again, in an F-15. It was a farewell sonic boom for the 74-year-old, who has retired from military flying. "I just decided to go out on top, rather than wait for some doctor to ground me," he said. Not that grounding would be all bad. The following day, a British pilot broke the speed of sound in a land vehicle...
...that barrier is crumbling under the weight of economics and consumer preference: nearly 200 jets are on order, and by the year 2002 they will replace more than 75% of the turboprops. "There's a rapidly developing dynamic," says Mike Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research, an aviation-consulting firm. "In the next few years, megacarrier systems--Delta, United and American--will be stampeding to take turboprops out of the system and replace them with jets." Indeed, American's pilots recently agreed to allow the company to buy as many as 67 regional jets...
After having a disastrous first day at the Dartmouth Invitational, for instance, Harvard stormed back in the next round with a solid score of 296. Not only did co-captain Alex Gonzalez shoot a team-best 73, but every Crimson golfer broke the 80-stroke barrier that day, bringing Harvard to only three strokes behind Ivy foe Dartmouth...
...British-made rocket car breaks the sound barrier in the Nevada desert (TIME Daily...