Word: designers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston was shaken by some old phrases from Playwright Noel Coward. The censor banned two quaint lines from his 15-year-old Design For Living (which played Boston uncensored in the early '305). One referred to a "wanton abode," the other to an "unpremeditated roll...
Before the jet engine came into the picture (like a young wife smashing the habits of a sot-in-his-ways bachelor), airframe designers were screaming for more power. Now they have it, they do not know quite what to do with it. The power-plant men are doing the screaming now. The great engine builders (Pratt & Whitney, Allison, General Electric, Westinghouse) are working on more powerful engines. "Get busy," they warn the airframe men, "and design some airframes that can keep up with...
There is no known design that will do all these things and still be a useful airplane. Wings that are efficient below Mach i do not serve above it. The behavior of an airframe in the transonic region is still a frightening unknown. But designers are working hard and hopefully. They are sure that by the time they have the proper airframe, they will have engines with plenty of power for the job. Engine men predict confidently that turbojet engines will work efficiently at least as high as Mach 1.5 (1,145 m.p.h...
...Hungry Speed Animal. Above Mach i, thinks the NACA, another and stranger type of jet engine begins to come into the picture. This is the "ram-jet," which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed...
...joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot be set in the frame of an old picture or traced on an old design." Hoffman observed afterward: "They all said 'yes' except one or two, who said...