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About eight miles north of a scheduled stop in Kankakee, Ill., the 14-car City of New Orleans rolled into its nightmare. Looking toward the railway crossing at the town of Bourbonnais, the engineer saw the warning lights flashing, the barriers down--and a truck carrying 20 tons of steel...
Just moments before, Sheena Dowe, 22, had left her baby son Amause with a friend in the dining car and taken the friend's toddler to the toilet in the sleeper. When the crash rocked the train, Dowe immediately pushed her friend's son out of the bathroom and screamed...
BURT RUTAN Airplane kits with nose-mounted wings and no tail that seem to fly backward. Jets with oversize canards mounted, Wright-brothers style, forward of the wings. A spindly, twin-boomed plane that in 1986 was the first to fly around the world without refueling. Aircraft designed by Burt...
When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky. They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight...
He hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of...