Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without pausing to change sticks, Mi-kita continued playing and to his sur prise found that he could rip off a shot faster and harder with his crooked cud gel. Soon he and Teammate Bobby Hull were warping the wooden blades of their sticks into scooplike curves by soaking them in hot water and wedging them under door jambs overnight...
...designed the "Coke bottle" fuselage - a narrow-waisted plane body that helps high-speed jets to slip through the sound barrier into supersonic flight. Now, 18 years later, Whitcomb has done it again. He has de veloped a radically new wing that will allow subsonic jets to fly faster, more smoothly and more efficiently...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
Ample Incentive. Both the airlines and the military have long been anxious to fly faster in their subsonic jets. So there was ample incentive four years ago for Whitcomb and a team of NASA engineers at the Langley Research Center in Virginia to turn from the investigation of supersonic wing design to the problem of subsonic turbulence...
...airlines will soon enter a period of change that will be almost as pronounced as the arrival of the jet age. Late this year, they will begin to fly the huge Boeing 747 jets, which are faster, quieter, bigger and potentially much more profitable than the 707s and DC-8s. In the first test flight last week, a 747 cruised for more than one hour and then made a smooth landing near Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant. "This plane is ridiculously easy to fly," said Test Pilot Jack Waddell. "It's a pilot's dream...