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Born & Bred. Halfway through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner...
Daily, 10,000 tons of chemical compounds-hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides-pour from 3.5 million exhaust pipes. When there is no breeze, and the exhaust-laden air is trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
...TILT ENGINES: Other aircraft designers prefer to keep their wings fixed and to swivel only the engine or the engine exhaust. The Curtis-Wright X-19 has four tillable engines on the tips of two stubby wings. The Bell X-22A has four tiltable propellers in circular ducts. Neither plane has yet completed successful tests, but two years ago the British were already flying the Hawker Siddeley P-1127, which has a single jet engine with 13,500 lbs. of thrust. During takeoff, the engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane...
...first glance, it looks like an ordinary jet fighter with two engines, but set into the stubby wings are what seem to be large manhole covers. When opened, each cover exposes a fan 5 ft. in diameter. When valves close off the tailpipe of the jet engines, racing exhaust gases hit the tips of the fan blades and spin them at high speed. Twin blasts of air are forced downward, and their powerful thrust lifts the airplane off the ground. Transition to horizontal flight is made by gradually opening the normal tailpipe and covering the wing fans...
...thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only ⅜ in. thick; the lining of the booster's throat, seared by exhaust gases, was made of reinforced plastic, far lighter than conventional graphite: jettabs pushed into the racing exhaust to simulate steering. Each of the novelties worked perfectly on the first...