Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friction-heated cockpit of a high-speed airplane has to be cooled elaborately to keep the pilot alive. If the pilot is taken out, and the craft becomes an unmanned missile, its interior must still be cooled to keep its electronic brain from dying of heat prostration. So, decided General Electric Co., heatproof electronic components should prove useful in the missile business. This week, after years of work, it showed whole electronic assemblies working efficiently, though red-hot in a glowing electric furnace...
...deafening jets and daring acrobatics, Britain's annual aircraft show at Farnborough last week had precious little new to show in the way of aircraft. Most of the planes were familar subsonic models, or experimental craft such as Fairey's supersonic Delta, current official speed-record holder (at 1,132 m.p.h.). But while all eyes turned skyward, most of the real stars of Farnborough sat silent in ground exhibits. They were Britain's new aircraft engines. Observed London's Economist: "There are more really good engines in Britain today than there are aircraft for them...
...main reason for Vickers' spectacular success (total sales: 353 planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME, Jan. 3, 1955). As for Rolls's pure jet engines, its latest Avon turbojet is rated at better than 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, not only powers a wide range of military craft in Britain, but is also reaching out for civilian markets, will be in de Havilland's redesigned Comet IV jetliner...
...SEAPLANE, Martin's swept-wing P6M Seamaster, is going into production. Navy has handed Martin $102 million initial order (about 18 planes) for huge, 600-plus-m.p.h. craft...
Most unlimited hydroplane jockeys nurse an unlimited hatred for Miss Pepsi. Their own heavy craft are designed to skim the surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying...