Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For a while, pilots and engineers argued about the wing control. One faction held that when the pistol grip was pulled backward, the wings should fold backward in concert. Others insisted that since all pilots are trained to push engine throttles forward when they want more speed, they might get...
With his Lotus finally functioning perfectly and nine points chalked up toward the 1965 Grand Prix championship, Clark quickly forgot the pain in his back. "It feels good to be back on top again," he beamed. Come June, factory mechanics will replace his Lotus' 195-h.p. V-8 Climax...
Segregated Air. Most members work from a set of proven plans, but some advanced experimenters lay out their own templates on the garage floor, which they change as they go along. The average plane costs between $1,800 and $2,000 in materials, including a second hand airplane engine or...
Bob Hope returned to Hollywood last week after two weeks, 25,000 miles, and a couple of near disasters on his 13th annual Christmas visit to American military men overseas. He went first to Korea this year and nearly lost half his troupe when one of the two helicopters they...
For thousands of years, repair surgery was limited to such obvious and available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of...