Word: chuting
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...then green. It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen." At 100,000 ft. the blackout ended, and McDivitt's voice came through. "We're five-by-five up here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute eight feet in diameter billowed out to stabilize the spinning craft, and at 10,600 ft. the white-and-orange main chute, 84 ft. across, blossomed like a giant marigold to waft the 3.5-ton craft gently to sea. Some 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 53 miles from...
...other hand, he is noted for risking his life. A U.S.-trained flyer, he burst on the scene three years ago after two recruits died in practice jumps with malfunctioning parachutes. When newspapers thundered about inferior equipment, Air Force Chief Barrientos invited news men to pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia's politicians. Then the assassination attempts began. One bomb exploded in his auto...
...refuse chute comes down the other side of our bedroom wall. After late parties, we hear the descent of 21 stories of beer cans and bottles," another tenant said...
While Westmoreland was commanding the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1958, he led a routine paratroop drop that turned to tragedy when the winds shifted. Five men were dragged to their death, one when the wind caught his grounded chute and swept him over a cliff. Westmoreland pitched in to help the wounded, from that day on refused to give the go-ahead for a drop until he had jumped first and had time to gauge the wind...
...business of some 40 companies that make seat belts; in two years their annual sales rose 43% to $90 million. Many of the smaller companies have already been nudged aside by the industry's three major producers: American Safety Equipment Co., Auto-Crat Manufacturing Co., and Irving Air Chute Co. From its sales to American Motors, Chrysler and Volkswagen, as well as its business of keeping men's pants up with Hickok belts, American Safety last year increased its business 100% to $13 million...