Word: compressional
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Golf's big names were there, straining to put a final touch of polish on their games. Ed Furgol, who manages to break par despite a withered left arm, had been drilling over the course for a month. Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, the best wind-shot in the business, and...
The hot, high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged...
The Army is planning to equip virtually all front-line vehicles, from tanks and prime movers to trucks and weapons carriers, with the new engine, and two truck companies are ready to order it as soon as it is in production. So Reese thinks it will be at least two...
When an object is moving through air at less than Mach I, compression waves speed out ahead of it. They "warn" the air molecules that a moving body is coming, so the molecules have time to rearrange themselves to flow evenly around it. But above Mach I, the moving body...
The Hungry Speed Animal. Above Mach i, thinks the NACA, another and stranger type of jet engine begins to come into the picture. This is the "ram-jet," which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look...