Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engine before the tractor was
In the rolling hills of Santa Clara County, 60 miles southeast of San Francisco, a man-made volcano erupted. A brilliant flame spewed 200 ft. in the air, and a screaming roar rolled across the country, knocking birds to the ground and shaking a helicopter that hovered a mile away...
Steered by Injections. U.A.C.'s 120-in. engine is a monster: 75 ft. tall, it weighs 250 tons, and each of its five cylindrical segments contains more rubbery propellant* than an entire Air Force Minuteman. While it burns for nearly two minutes, it gives 1,000,000 lbs. of...
Inevitably, the 120's success reopened the long squabble among experts over the merits of solid fuel and liquid fuel in rocket-engine design. In the desperate effort to produce very large boosters such as those the Russians have, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration several years ago committed...
Interested Spectator. Last week's successful test of the U.A.C.'s engine went far to justify the claim of those who have always argued that solid-fuel rockets can be increased in size much more easily than engines that burn liquids. Solid fuels, in fact, have been the...