Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First (see diagram below) he fired a short burst of backward burn from the thrusters, lowering Gemini's apogee by 13 miles. Almost 40 minutes later, he triggered a forward burn to raise the perigee ten miles. Next he yawed the spacecraft and fired the aft thrusters to move it onto the same orbital plane as the phantom. After one last forward thrust to raise the apogee, Cooper had his craft in a co-elliptical orbit with the phantom Agena-close enough so that the pilot, using on-board radar and computer, could eventually bring his craft to within...
...peering through the open windows, and punctuated by the heavy footsteps of Communist guards being changed outside. Pak called Yarborough "a fool, an idiot"; Yarborough ridiculed his counterpart as a "political commissar" masquerading as a military man, bitingly explained the operation of a carbine with the help of a diagram: "This is where the bullet comes...
...computer-operated landing system aboard the Trident is called the Autoflare, developed by Smith's Aircraft Instruments and Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane...
...likely to take over and get the rest of the circulatory system, including the three other chambers, to work effectively in unison. However, if both left and right ventricles have been severely damaged, they might be replaced by a two-in-one prosthesis with a single pump (see diagram, right...
...body's powerful muscles, perhaps in the shoulder girdle, to such a pacemaker. Then, when the little device gives its electrical command, the muscle will contract, and in the process it will squeeze an implanted bellows, which in its turn will squeeze the left ventricle or both (see diagram, center). Like all gadgeteers, the heart researchers also dream of using atomic power...