Word: crosswind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minutes to Swim. On race day, a 20-knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered...
...idea first occurred to Navy Pilot James R. Conrey in 1960, while he was jockeying his plane through a tricky crosswind landing at Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and landing. As he struggled with the controls, Conrey longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked...
...crosswind is causing the plane to drift sideways, the pilot may have to swing the rear antenna to right or left before it picks up the proper pattern of ground radiation. In that case, the amount of antenna swing is also fed into the computer, which then cranks the drift angle into its computations. Working with direction, ground speed, drift angle and flight time from a known point of departure, the pilot's computer becomes an accurate navigator...