Word: bridgeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LONELY SKY (316 pp.)-William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard-Holt...
Test Pilot William Barton Bridgeman, 38, is the first flyer to write a book telling how it feels to ride a rocket aimed at space and fight the sky at 1,200 miles an hour. In his autobiography Pilot Bridgeman (TIME, April 27, 1953) describes a three-year skirmish in the U.S. campaign against the unknowns of speed and space as a personal battle. The result: one of the year's most fascinating adventure stories...
...rocket ship which 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...
...digging deeper, they bring up Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White, he can counter with James B. Conant, Edwin Colu, Christian Herter, Leveret Saltonstall, Percy Bridgeman, Franklin Roosevelt, Sinclair Weeks and Thomas Lamont. The University is not deficient on this score...
...speeds. This ruled out rocket motors, which use so much fuel that they can deliver full power for only a few minutes. Whether the X-3's turbo jets proved powerful enough to drive it at the speed for which it was designed is still an official secret. Bridgeman, Douglas, the Air Force and the Navy have now finished with the X3, are turning it over to the NACA for further research work without talking about its performance...