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...when Ted Curtis' report said that the Federal Aviation Agency should be run by a civilian it meant the first general who could get his uniform off. Your article was good, well written and obviously very well researched. But I sometimes get the feeling that Quesada thinks the cone of silence is the lull after a general gives an order...
...Strawberry Cone. She earned that right the hard way-in a tough childhood that knew little luxury. Before she was in school she already knew how to suppress her tears and keep her head high...
...While Will Ryan shopped, his four-year-old daughter waited patiently, perched on the high seat of the family buggy. "I would never, never ask for anything." she remembers, "but how I hoped! I'd watch the corner to see if he came back carrying a straw berry cone. That was the big treat." If there was no cone, the little girl understood that her father had no money left for treats, and she stifled her disappointment. "I just waited and hoped." The future Second Lady was born on March 16, 1912, in the mining town...
...conventional rocket engine, fuel is burned in a roughly spherical combustion chamber, and turns into hot, high-pressure gas. To keep the gas from expanding wastefully in all directions as it leaves the nozzle, it is channeled into a tail cone where its pressure is efficiently converted into thrust as it expands (see diagram). The cone should be long enough to reduce the pressure of the gas to that of the surrounding atmosphere. Thus rockets intended to work at very high altitudes must have extra-long tail cones...
General Electric, Aerojet-General, Pratt & Whitney and Rocketdyne are all working on plug nozzles. Tests have been promising, and rocket men predict that for many applications the plugs will eventually supersede the graceful tail-cone engine...