Word: downdrafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...routine developed during three foggy weeks of tests, a helicopter was flown to an altitude of 500 ft. above the mist, where it hovered until the turbulence of its downdraft traced a cir cular outline about 5,000 ft. in diameter on the upper layer of fog. The chopper then descended to 100 ft. above the fog and, at a speed of 30 m.p.h., began to fly in a gradually enlarging spiral pattern until it reached the edge of the circular outline. Within a minute, the fog began to fade away at the center of the circle. Ten minutes later...
Even then, Douglas was in a downdraft. Part of the trouble was that strong-willed Donald Wills Douglas Sr., now 74, had waited too long to move into commercial jet transports; the DC-8 lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each...
...Downdraft. But he was not about to give up. It was almost inevitable that Mr. Mac should go all out to buy Douglas when he got a chance. He made a first overture in 1963 after picking up an estimated 200,000 shares of the California company's stock. Douglas rejected his advances, and McDonnell later sold his holdings at a handsome profit...
...date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion, so he can whisk above the perpetual traffic snarls to fires, crashes-and his city hall office...
...Miller, 23, a graduate of Jesuit-run Le Moyne College in Syracuse, who claims that "the only thing I'm expert at is refusing to be drafted," and Brown University Dropout David Mitchell, also 23, who founded the Brooklyn-based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience as Exhibit A in court-and both face jail terms...