Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Microwave systems are versatile; a single channel can carry up to 2,500 messages at a time v. 1,800 for a coaxial telephone cable. Messages may be oral, or merely impulses which are registered on meters or run through teletype machines...
...tube. With that primitive knowledge in hand, he decided that he could build a plane that would combine the advantages, of a helicopter with the speed of normal, fixed-wing aircraft. After some 20 years of tinkering, Custer completed a crude, full scale, flying model of a "Custer Channel Wing" airplane...
...develop tremendous lift. Even when tied to a pole to prevent forward motion, its engines putting out only 800 lbs. of thrust, the 1,100-lb. plane rose slowly off the ground and hovered in perfect balance. And Custer is satisfied that the first brief flights made with his channel wing mark a milestone in aviation. More advanced models, he said, will take off almost vertically, fly faster than a conventional plane using the same power, land like a helicopter and carry enormous payloads over great distances. Powered by jet engines, his wing, says Custer, will revolutionize the aircraft industry...
Like many an inventor, Custer is quick to brush off all future problems as mere "engineering details." Skeptical Air Force experts are waiting doubtfully for the results of further tests. But Taylorcraft, Inc. already has a channel wing ship on the drawing board...
...some commanders, did little more than add details to the account his wartime boss, Ike Eisenhower, had told three years before. The Army's own official history, United States Army in World War II (seven volumes finished of go-odd projected), did a workmanlike job in Cross-Channel Attack. For anyone who was in on the show, the pictures alone made it a book...