Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell P-59, only U.S. jet plane yet given a name and public showing, already far surpasses in range and general performance the two known German types (Me-262 and Me-163). U.S. air officers undisturbed by such skeptical armchair critics as the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin, are biding their time, expect to show the enemy some jet surprises before long...
...great advantage of the jet engine is its simplicity. In contrast to the conventional reciprocating engine, the Bell P-59 motor has only four basic parts: 1) compressor, 2) combustion chamber, 3) turbine, 4) the cone-shaped jet through which the expanding gases that drive the plane are expelled. Because its operation, like a gun's recoil, is based on Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), engineers prefer to call it the "reaction engine...
Human Design. The U.S. pioneers in jet-plane research, which began before Pearl Harbor and has been based on the design by British Inventor Frank Whittle, have been General Electric (the motor) and Bell Aircraft (the frame). But today almost every major U.S. planemaker is up to his ears in jet plans...
Announced recently by the House committees of Lowell and Adams were the elections of seven men, who will take office with the opening of the spring term. From a field of 26 nominees, the Bellboys picked George I. Bell '48, Stephen Fischer-Galati '45, Robert Hackett '48, Donor Lion '45, and Chester Pierce '48; while on the Gold Coast, Thomas A. Fennell, Jr. '48, and Richard T. Gill '48, were chosen from a list of eight...
...British Medical Journal published an analysis, by Surgeon R. C. Bell, of injuries suffered by 259 robot bomb victims. Chief types...