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...toward India. In theory, balloons can't be steered, but pilots improvise by dropping up and down between different altitudes in search of the right wind pattern. Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams, high-altitude currents that usually move from west to east. "It's magical what pilots can achieve," says balloonmaker Don Cameron. "In competitions with hot-air balloons, they'll set a target 10 miles away and ask pilots to drop a marker on it, and the pilots will get within a meter of it." The Orbiter 3 crew...
...with her favorite black-and-white photo of King Hussein framed in silver at her side, the story she tells of their last months and days together, especially "the sudden, vicious rebound [that] caught us all by surprise," is a heartbreaking final chapter to one of the Middle East's most unusual romances. Noor says the six months in the U.S. during Hussein's cancer treatment were among their most enriching times together since the former Princeton cheerleader (ne Lisa Halaby) married the Arab monarch two decades ago. They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work...
...Worcester caught on. In 1929, an 11-ft. missile caused such a stir the police were called. Where there are police there is inevitably the press, and next day the local paper ran the horse-laughing headline: MOON ROCKET MISSES TARGET BY 238,799 1/2 MILES. For Goddard, the East Coast was clearly becoming a cramped place to be. In 1930, with the promise of a $100,000 grant from financier Harry Guggenheim, Goddard and his wife Esther headed west to Roswell, N.Mex., where the land was vast and the launch weather good, and where the locals, they were told...
...pilots cruising at high altitudes discover powerful west-to-east wind systems, later called jet streams...
...expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone out of their way to cram as much bacchanalian debauchery into one island as possible...