Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combat-Bound. As the first plane developed for close support of ground troops since World War II, the Corsair has both. It can loiter for more than four hours over a target and withstand hits by small-caliber ground fire on any of its vital parts. Just as important is...
Compare an imaginary middle-class Mr. U.S. in 1917 with his counterpart today. After breakfast cooked on a cast-iron stove, Mr. U.S. of 1917 wrapped himself against the early autumn chill, went out to his open Model T, hand-cranked the engine into ear-splitting action, and headed for...
The force now consists of 62 twin-engine Mirage IV bombers and a growing stockpile of conventional atom bombs of up to 150 kilotons each. The Mach 2.2 Mirage carries a single bomb, and from such bases as Istres in Southern France can be over Russian cities in a half...
Cutting in after the first stage was jettisoned, the liquid-hydrogen-fueled SII second stage fired flawlessly, providing 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust and boosting the rocket to an altitude of 115 miles before it, too, was jettisoned. Now it was the turn of the third-stage S-IVB...
Interception Path. During its third orbit, the S-IVB refired its engine, increasing its speed to nearly 23,400 m.p.h. and thrusting farther away from the earth. After the S-IVB was separated and the Apollo service-module engine fired briefly, placing Apollo into an orbit with an apogee of...