Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The rest of the fleet consisted mostly of standard inboards and outboards that might have come from a showroom window. But Jerry Langer's No. 10 was strictly do-it-yourself. An out-board-engine dealer from Miami Beach, Langer had borrowed a Fiberglas mold, poured himself a hull...
Roar & a Crackle. Its eight booster engines spitting a 150-ft. tail of flame, Saturn 1B burned for 2 min. 26 sec., at which point it was 35 miles up and moving at 5,400 m.p.h. Next came the tricky second stage, a single 225,000-lb.-thrust engine powered...
Critical to this and all future missions was the supersophisticated 3-ft.-high IBM instrument unit, packed with 3,900 lbs. of computers, monitors and guidance equipment so carefully contrived that the entire system was triply redundant. If one set of circuits disagreed with the other two, the system would...
Selling Ideas. Sloan was a man of almost cadaverous appearance (6 ft., 130 Ibs.) and unfailing courtesy. "I never give orders," he once said. "I sell my ideas to my associates if I can." He generally could, and many of his ideas still stand as guiding principles for G.M. In...
Twice bitten, thrice cautious. "We're in better shape than we've ever been" was all that Shelby would say last week on the eve of the new season's first big sports-car race-the 24-hour Daytona Continental. Gone were the six Ford GTs that...