Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For 19 months and 131 million miles, Boeing's 727 won nothing but praise from pilots, passengers and airlines. The first American-made medium-range jet -and the first three-engine airliner the U.S. has built since the famed Ford Trimotor-it handles easily, skims like a swallow in...
∙ Linn Emrich, 34, was a commercial-airline pilot, but quit because "it took all the satisfaction and joy out of flying. You always had to fly where they wanted. You sat there in this big plush seat with your earphones on, the radio chattering, and the engine noise drowning...
Another space mystery seemed close to solution last week. After painstaking analysis of hundreds of data-packed yards of magnetic tape, Air Force and NASA investigators offered a tentative explanation for the failure of an Agena rocket to soar into orbit as a target for the spacecraft Gemini 6. Looming...
Salt & Stabilizers. And then there was Craig Breedlove, 28, an ex-fireman from Palos Verdes, Calif., whose addiction to speed has cost him his life savings, one marriage, and very nearly his life. In 1963, Breedlove set a land speed record of 407 m.p.h. in his three-wheeled Spirit of...
"The customized, homemade hot-rod is American folk art," says Laing. "The car is escape, the home on wheels, the second self, the great American dream. Racing them has as much ritual as the Japanese tea ceremony." He even brought his own hot-rod to London last summer. The chopped...