Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smoke Out of the Chute-Accelerate from the starting line with tires spinning...
...metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot can bail out as if from any more conventional craft and float to earth with his own chute. With the X-2 flying in the air perhaps as fast as 2,250 m.p.h., the old X-1A will probably never be missed...
Afterwards-after the heart-stopping order, "Prepare to abandon aircraft!", after the shock of the opening chute and the jarring drop onto a British beet field -Lieut. Ripault, Free French navigator flying with the R.A.F., lost all contact with the war. He was the only survivor of a two-plane crackup and he hardly knew what had happened. "I'm not clear about anything," he told his squadron commander. At the moment, he did not care...
...million airport: Amon Carter Field. Dallas took Carter's gibes in good humor, thought (as did Amon Carter) that the competition was good for both cities. Said the Dallas Morning News: "Carter punched Dallas like cowboys are wont to do slow steers in a shipping chute...
...That Thomas Watson's "THINK" may sometimes fall down the wrong chute is exemplified by the IBM building on Place Vendôme, that marvel of 18th century Paris...