Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
...Kaline, crack young (20) outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, won the American League batting title with an average of .340. Born on Dec. 19, 1934, Kaline became youngest man to win the championship by a margin of one day. His predecessor: Detroit's Ty Cobb, who was born Dec. 18, 1886 and first won the title in 1907 with...
Suspicion pointed early to No. 12 cylinder, whose barrel had broken clear through. The CAB men sent the cylinder parts to the National Bureau of Standards, where laboratory examination showed several small fatigue cracks that had joined to form a single large crack one-third of the way around the cylinder. The steel itself proved sound, with no microscopic abnormalities that might have caused the cracks. So there must be other culprits...
...testified that this corner-cutting technique was "handed down" to him by a predecessor. The hand-down proved disastrous. When the flange, slightly bent by the earlier failure of its studs, was drawn tight on the second installation, the stresses set up in the steel must have caused fatigue cracks. The engine ran only six hours before the fire and crash. This conclusion was confirmed by Pratt & Whitney, which strained a brand-new cylinder by stud failure, installed it in an engine, and ran it on a test stand. A similar fatigue crack developed, and the cylinder failed in three...
...reconstruction of the Flight 476 crash: the cylinder crack released an explosive mixture of gasoline and air, which was probably ignited by the hot exhaust manifold. The flames passed through the fire wall behind the cylinders, where they should have been stopped, and melted gas and oil lines, which released fresh fuel. The fire, now a roaring blowtorch, burned through the aluminum nacelle skin and heated the front wing spar. It failed, and the wing came...