Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In any war, it takes time to convert to forward motion the inertia that follows a massive buildup of arms. Last week the vast engine of military power that the U.S. has installed in South Viet Nam was finally warming to its task. A new air of confidence pervaded the...
Surface Slots. On the ground, Lee Norman, NASA parasail-project engineer, sat at his instrument panel, per forming functions by remote control that might have been handled by on board astronauts. With remarkable ease, Norman sailed his descending craft for ward and back, left and right, like a pilot looking...
What the analyzer does is to compare an engine's sounds with what those sounds ought to be. The taped sounds are fed to a computer, which translates their complex wave shapes into the language of binary numbers and then works out a program for the analyzer. The analyzer...
Shortly before noon on March 1, 1964, a four-engine Constellation operated by California's Paradise Airlines smashed into a snow-covered mountainside near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. All 85 aboard were killed. Now, after a 16-month investigation of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Further away from production (perhaps seven years) but potentially more important is Chevrolet's prototype of a turbine-powered truck, the Turbo Titan III. Its engine is lighter, quieter and longer-lasting (350,000 miles v. 250,000) than conventional diesels, but fuel bills are costlier. Among its many...