Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backside To. After 30 years of complicated experimenting, Herz (who makes his living as an accountant) decided that the earth rotates faster than its oceans and atmosphere. Therefore, the inertia of water and air produce currents that appear to move in the opposite direction. Herz concluded that, since the important (in his opinion) air and ocean currents of the planet do, indeed, move uniformly eastward, the earth must be moving westward...
...Said he: "I'm worried about my rabbits." When they talked shop, they debated only one question: who had backspin on shooters and who didn't. Backspin, to make the shooter stick in the ring, was the key to success on the slick cork rings, which were faster than dirt. No one gave away any trade secrets. Roanoke asked Columbia, S.C.: "Ever play for fun?" Columbia answered scornfully: "Whaddaya mean...
...last week after almost ten years in Europe. Veteran Army Test Pilot Colonel Albert Boyd, 40, made four three-kilometer (1.86 mi.) runs, with and against a light breeze, in a jet-propelled Lockheed P-80R over Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. His average speed: 623.8 m.p.h., only 7.8 m.p.h. faster than Britain's record, hung...
From that point upward, says Lockheed's Designer Clarence Johnson, "the drag curve is almost vertical." No matter how much power is applied, the P-80R will fly only a little faster...
Future speed tests will probably be flown at high altitudes. Even under liberalized conditions, few designers think that conventional planes will fly much faster than the P-80R, which is already pushing against that invisible sky barrier, the speed of sound. The next major speed increase will come, most airmen think, when a radically different plane breaks through the barrier and runs at supersonic speed, as V-2 rockets...