Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workmen behind them busily carting off the whole insides-seats, galley, cabin partitions-of their aircraft. In Seattle last week, United Air Lines showed off the plane that can do the strip: the 600-m.p.h. Boeing 727 QC (for Quick Change), first airliner designed to moonlight as a cargo plane after turning in a full day, and fat profits, as a passenger carrier...
...ungainly gadget carried no human passengers. But as it eased its complex cargo to a soft landing on the moon's Ocean of Storms last week, the U.S. spacecraft, Surveyor I, moved man himself closer than ever to a landing on his nearest planetary neighbor. In an exercise of textbook perfection, Surveyor settled down only a few miles from its planned target; its TV camera panned across the lunar landscape and high-quality pictures streamed back to earth. For a program that had languished for years in exasperating delay, expanding expenses and mounting criticism, the very first payoff...
...helicopter rescue service that plucks downed U.S. flyers out of North Viet Nam and whisks them to safety. In South Viet Nam, Air America has become the aerial backbone of both the U.S. AID mission and the Vietnamese rural reconstruction program, ferrying as much as 6.2 million tons of cargo into isolated areas within a single month. At least 50 Air America air craft are regularly based at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport...
...activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When the crawler next emerges from the assembly building with a cargo, it will be carrying a complete and checked-out Saturn 5 scheduled...
...crawler-transporter thundered into life. Positioned underneath the 36-story Saturn rocket and its umbilical tower-which were supported on six steel columns-the 2,750-ton crawler then gently raised its platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with 200 Ibs. of soap, and onto an eight-lane rock-paved "crawlerway" that led to the launch...