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...supersonic Su-15. The jumbo's typical cruising speed is 540 m.p.h.; the Soviet fighter is capable of speeds in excess of 1,400 m.p.h. Pilot 805 correctly assumes he will not need to use his afterburner (a device that sprays fuel into a jet's hot exhaust, giving it a sudden burst of speed) in order to catch up to the lumbering jetliner...
...like the inside of a bonfire." Thus did the pilot of Challenger, Daniel Brandenstein, describe the fiery view from his cockpit last week during the first nighttime launch of a U.S. space shuttle. So bright were the exhaust flames of Challenger's main engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters, which burn at 6000° F, that observers gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the eighth flight of NASA's Space Transportation System (STS-8) could read newspapers outdoors at 2:32 a.m. Awed by the sight of the flames against the night sky, Flight Commander Richard Truly...
...plant was originally designed to supply the total energy needs of Harvard's medical area through a process called cogeneration, whereby diesel exhaust is used to make steam...
...hearing to investigate the possible links between cancer and the exhaust produced by Harvard's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) will take place sometime in June...
...Long stretches of sandy, palm-shaded beaches. Azure waters flecked with colorful sails. These are the popular, still largely correct, tourist-poster views of that playground of the New World: the Caribbean. Sadly, in recent years less enticing images have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...