Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still not satisfied, the Farnborough men constructed a large model of a Comet's cabin in transparent plastic. They filled it with model seats and model passengers. They pumped it full of air at 8¼ lbs. Then they deliberately fractured the skin near the direction-finder window and took a motion picture of what happened...
...stuck out at the sides through waterproof rubber packing, and the whole tank, Yoke Uncle and all, was filled with water. Then pumps forced more water into the Comet until the pressure rose to 8¼ lbs. per square inch, equaling the air pressure in a Comet's cabin when it is flying at 40,000 ft. While the pressure was rising, powerful jacks moved the wings up and down just as wings are stressed by bumpy air. In this way, all the "fatiguing" effects of a typical three-hour flight could be brought to bear on Yoke Uncle...
Patiently, the Farnborough men made "flight" after flight. At last came the event that they had been waiting for. After the equivalent of 9,000 hours of flight, the skin of the cabin near a window yielded to metal fatigue. This gave the essential clue. The scientists found a similar break in the fragments of Yoke Peter near the direction-finder window in the roof. Then they traced, fragment by fragment, what had happened with fearful swiftness to the doomed Comet...
Flaming Spin. The first small crack was enough; air pressure (more than half a ton per square foot) did the rest. The cabin exploded like a bursting balloon; its top flew off; its tail and nose broke away. The wings broke in two, releasing floods of fuel, which ignited. Then the gutted fuselage with its two stub wings dived flaming to the sea in an inverted spin...
...chubbers, first organized as the DOC in 1909, have split into various sub-groups. The three major subsidiaries are Winter Sports, which sponsors the College ski team, Cabin and trail, which maintains a chain of mountain hostels, and a Carnival division. In addition, there are the Ledyard Canoe club, the Ski Patrol, the Mountaineering club, and Bait and Bullet...