Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anyone," he said, "who thinks I'm going to climb that mountain and sit on top amid the ice and snow spying on Russia through a telescope, must be insane. Besides," he added wistfully, "if the secret service were behind me, I wouldn't have so much trouble raising money...
...final "evaluation." Since the airplane's basic flight characteristics are well understood by then, evaluation work is usually done at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, close to the great laboratories of the Engineering Division. The airplane is flown at all possible altitudes, loads, power outputs and rates of climb. It is strained, stunted, landed under adverse conditions. Out of this work, which requires hundreds of flights, grows a thick book of detailed figures on the airplane's performance...
...should be able to carry nearly twice as much lox and alcohol. This single improvement (there may be others) should push it into a much higher speed range. Numerous guessers around California airfields speculate that it ought to climb well above 100,000 ft. At this altitude the air is so thin that tremendous speed should be possible...
Downhill skiing towers above all other sports for thrills, and it takes real condition . . . Just to climb to the top of the ski runs would melt much of the beef off the sedentary bobsledders...
Henry Bradford Washburn '33, veteran explorer and mountain climber, will show his technicolor film. "The Conquest of Mount McKinley" at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the Geographical Building at 8 p.m. tonight. The technical points of the climb will be featured...