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...this takes about seven seconds. After that, the lower brewing cup dumps its grounds down a chute into the household sewerage drain, is swished clean by a jet of hot water, then swings up and around to the top, while the brewing cup containing the freshly used grounds swings down to take its place. The double brewing action, says Havajava President George C. Lane, provides good coffee flavor. "We've found there is no difference in the taste even when the grounds have been in the cup for 48 hours. If you haven't made...
Triple Insurance. Drag parachutes are neither heavy nor expensive. On 6-52 heavy bombers, which weigh more than 175 tons fully loaded, they cost $830 per ship and weigh only 120 Ibs. The new Lockheed JetStar, a four-jet executive plane, carries as standard equipment a drag chute that weighs only 20 Ibs. Lockheed spokesmen believe that a JetStar chute has yet to be used, but they say bluntly: "The purpose is safety. It's an insurance item for stopping. First you have the brakes, then thrust reversal, then the drag chute. It's a good little thing...
...commercial U.S. jetliners carry drag chutes? In questions of air safety, definitive answers are as scarce as antigravity screens, but several theories have been suggested. One is that the airline operators dislike such devices because their very presence suggests the possibility of trouble and scares potential passengers. Another argument is that the Federal Aviation Agency is not pushing drag chutes, and therefore the airlines and airplane manufacturers feel no urge to install them. The weight of a drag chute, after all, would eliminate a couple of passenger seats which, on the rare occasions when an airplane is chockfull...
...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
...fired to slow the space capsule and send it plunging back into the atmosphere. He had a choice, he said later, of riding his capsule all the way to earth, or of parachuting out once he dropped low enough. He chose to eject from the Vostok and use his chute, with which he drifted into a plowed field some 460 miles from Moscow, remarkably close to the spot where Yuri Gagarin landed...