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...flying dangerous. But bit by bit, say the pilots, noise abatement procedures are chipping away at their margin of safety. Long training urges that they take off into the wind and climb to altitude on a straight course under full power. Noise abatement often requires them to take off downwind, to climb too steeply, to make turns at minimum altitudes and air speeds. Cutting power for the sake of quietness reduces air speed also, just when a plane needs every boost it can get. As it is practiced today, says Edward Bechtold, a safety expert of the Airline Pilots Association...
...most of its fission products were carried into the stratosphere, from which they will fall gradually over several years, covering a broad zone around the Northern Hemisphere. If the fireball touched the ground, its local fallout would seriously contaminate a cigar-shaped region many hundreds of miles downwind. U.S. weathermen calculated that the north winds blowing just after the Soviet test would carry local fallout southward into Soviet Russia down to the latitude of Leningrad...
...course was a windward-leeward twice-around variety, and two spinnaker sets were necessary in each race. At no time did the Crimson reach the upwind mark in better than third place, but Ford took the downwind stretches at speeds up to 13 knots, assuring a high finish in each race...
...third race, Ford was sailing on the downwind leg of the course when a sudden shift in the wind direction caused the sail to jibe accidentally. The main boom swung across, carrying both Horn (acting as downwind boomvang) and Drake with it. Pring just managed to place himself in their path and block them from plummeting over the boat's rail...
...several times that weight anywhere on earth. Russian-built loo-megaton bombs would not be too heavy to be carried by rocket to New York, Washington or Phoenix. One such bomb could surely destroy New York, and its fallout would kill most people exposed within 100 miles or more downwind...