Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something Alive. The unusual managerial approach has paid off. With five plants in Japan, a joint venture in Thailand, and subsidiaries in seven foreign countries, Honda reported $331.6 million in sales for the year ending Aug. 31, up $15.4 million from fiscal '65. Net profits are up $3,500...
> The British and French hope to fly a prototype Concorde in February 1968, test a second prototype in the summer of '68, and have their SST operational by 1971. The British Aircraft Corp. is building the nose and tail sections for the 1,450 m.p.h., 140-passenger Con corde...
> The U.S. SST is still on the drawing boards, but rival airframe and engine makers have submitted plans to the FAA for approval later this year. Competing for the airframe contract are Lockheed and Boeing; for the engine job, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney. Lockheed offers a double-delta-wing...
It was a sad ending for a flight that had made an impressive start. Launched by an Atlas Centaur rocket less than a second before its time "window" closed, Surveyor headed toward the moon on a near-perfect trajectory that would have set it down just 40 miles from its...
Using the powerful, 16,000-lb.-thrust engine of their captive Agena, the Gemini 11 astronauts also reached the highest altitude ever flown by man. While consuming nearly three-quarters of a ton of fuel in a 25-second burn, the engine increased the Gemini-Agena's speed by...