Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equipped with bloated rear tires, it rolls as easily over beaches as a dune buggy; wearing snow tires, it can roam freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000...
Appropriately, the son of the bug is inexpensive to build. An old VW chassis, with its independently suspended four wheels and air-cooled rear engine, provides the basic foundation. The frame is first shortened by 14½ inches-a process that moves the center of gravity back over the rear...
The first of Saturn's obvious troubles, the unexpected and early shutdown of two of the five J-2 engines powering the second stage (TIME, April 12), was traced to a fuel line that broke under the strain of liquid hydrogen flowing through it at approximately 100 m.p.h. The...
Jarred Astronauts. Failure of the third-stage rocket engine to restart later in the mission was tentatively traced to a broken line that supplied hydrogen to the ignition system. Without an ignition flame, the engine could not be restarted. To reduce the possibility of future breaks in the stainless-steel...
Grinning like a baseball pitcher who had just walloped a grand-slam homer, McDonnell Douglas Corp. President David S. Lewis stood up at a Chicago press conference last week and an nounced that "It is official now. We are going to produce the DC-10." Lewis' happy assurance was...