Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experienced talent to work with this year in his crop of freshmen. Not much more than spirit will be riding in the '52 150 shell this afternoon. Last year, Haines was blessed with a top notch freshman crew. Six members of it now row in the varsity lightweight craft...
...eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
Muroc is the U.S. Air Force's secret test base. Its ships, as un-nautical Air Forcemen insist on calling aircraft, are the latest planes, from the big B-36 to Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles...
Chuck punched the first hole on Oct. 14, 1947, when a B-29 took off from Muroc with his odd, fat little airplane nestled under its bomb-bay. Chuck's small craft had no propeller, no intake for a jet engine; only four rocket orifices in its stubby tail. The little airplane, the Bell X-1, was as daring a challenge to the unknown as the Wrights' first faltering biplane...
...relayed through two or three human elements. The result: at best, delay-at worst, disaster. The improved apparatus now locks a gun so that it cannot be fired when aimed at a plane, ship or tank which I.F.F. indicates is friendly. To get such automatic protection, the target craft must have its own part of the I.F.F. equipment (the "transponder") switched on and working properly. CJ A new microphone, weighing less than oz. and smaller than a stack of six dimes, had its radio try out. Developed by California's Altec Lansing Corp., it does not hide a speaker...