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...plane is much like the DC-6B, but it has its own important differences. The DC-6B's Pratt & Whitney 2,500-h.p. engines have been replaced by 3,250-h.p. Wright turbo-compound engines, which use their exhaust jet to turn small turbines. This has stepped up the cruising speed to 365 m.p.h. (v. 310 in the DC-6Bs), making it possible to fly from New York to Los Angeles nonstop in eight hours. The plane has a cruising range of 4,450 miles, and, unlike the DC-6, can easily fly the Atlantic nonstop. The 69-passenger...
...critical point in the evolution of man . . . " says Huxley, " was when he . . . could organize his experience in a common pool. It was this which made human life different ... Animal types have limited possibilities, and sooner or later exhaust them. Man has an unlimited field of possibilities ... He has developed a new method of evolution: the transmission of organized experience ... which supplements and largely overrides the automatic process of natural selection ..." As soon as man acquired the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge, he bested all his rivals and possible rivals on earth...
...Super Connie gets its extra speed and range from four of Curtiss-Wright's new 3,250 h.p. turbo-compounded engines, which use the previously wasted exhaust blast to whirl three small turbine wheels, giving 20% more power to the propeller shaft. With them, the Super Connie reaches a cruising speed of 340 m.p.h., or 13 miles faster than the non-compounded Super Connies already being flown by Eastern Airlines and T.W.A. The U.S. Navy will get the first model late this month. In March, Lockheed will deliver the first commercial model to Royal Dutch Airlines...
When working on rockets in Germany, Von Braun fired a V-2 on a clear day 15 minutes after the sun had set. The stars were already coming out, and as the great rocket climbed upward, the flame of its exhaust diminished to a shining pinpoint and disappeared. Then the rocket broke into the sunlight above the shadow of the earth and gleamed, brilliantly visible, against the darkening sky. He watched it through its full course, like a bright, climbing star, and followed it down again into the shadow...
...other reported injury was a knee burn, caused by heat from the exhaust pipe of one of the police motorcycles...