Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise to an altitude of two miles, but most flyers preferred to stay under...
Zero Landings. Since the Federal Aviation Agency requires all gyrocopters to be at least 51% homemade, there were hairy tales of accidents to swap. One builder had mounted his rotor blade upside down, then vainly tried taking off with it that way. Another had added bolts to eliminate rotor teetering; when he took off, his craft turned into a gyroscope, flipped over and collapsed...
Crumpled Craft. "The main fear is losing your rotor blade," says Don White, a mechanical engineer at Douglas Aircraft. "I imagine nearly every guy has had at least one engine failure, and this is something you can cope with. The gyrocopter just settles down to earth. But if you lose your rotor blade, you're out of luck. It's like a wing on an airplane." Fortunately, the gyrocopter is what pilots call "a forgiving plane"; the construction tends to give on crashing, and there is little mass to crush or entangle the pilot. "If he lands...
Brewery Classrooms. Even Rutgers is poorly supported. At the main campus in New Brunswick, its history department conducts classes in a converted century-old house and a more ancient prep-school building. A Rutgers branch in Newark operates in a converted brewery and a former razor-blade factory. Salaries are tied to state civil service scales, adequate for instructors but, at a maximum of $16,000, too low to keep top professors. Raided by the State University of New York and others, New Jersey last year made an exception and offered a few professors up to $24,000, but, insists...
Gillette began to fight back in earnest in December 1963, when it entered the British stainless-blade market, launched a major new salvo last September with a massively advertised new blade coating named "Microchrome EB-7." Wilkinson, whose ads seem designed to sell swords as much as blades, still is holding on to its 52% share of the British stain less market, but it has had to lay out needed cash to double its advertising spending. "We made certain forecasts and geared our output to them," says Managing Director Roy Randolph. "Well, it has proved more difficult than we expected...