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Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
Hood, of course, wasn't telling-although he was already talking about building still another boat that would "carry my design theories to the ultimate, and be minutes faster than Dame Pattie." But that would probably have to wait until after next summer's America's Cup races off Rhode Island. In the meantime, Hood is concentrating on more current projects-like trying to figure out why Dame Pattie's mast keeps snapping off. In a race against Gretel two weeks ago, Dame Pattie was leading by 5 min., only 250 yds. from the finish line...
...families have found it hard to adapt to the faster pace and higher rents in Stamford; some of their neighbors have been amused and confused by their slow Southern drawls. On the grounds that Stamford seems to have quite enough churches as it is, clergymen of other faiths question the need for the mission, but laymen are more open-minded. So far, there have been only two formal conversions, but Pounders happily reports that several others are "on the verge." What attracts converts is the activist zeal of the transplanted missionaries. Says High School Teacher Janet Saine, who joined...
...plant at the St. Louis airport with $165,000 in savings and money borrowed from, among others, Laurance Rockefeller. Gaining experience and financial strength as a subcontractor on such planes as the DC-3, McDonnell eventually designed and built his own, convinced the Navy that it could fly faster and perform better on two jet engines than on one. McDonnell, with his company now deeply committed to space projects, still takes an engineer's interest in design work. And the next DC passenger ship, whenever it comes, thus may bear enough of his mark to make it the McDC...
Thus, beneath their elation, Boeing's brass could only feel a certain sense of continuing frustration. The B-2707, of course, will be by far the most costly airplane ever built. It will fly faster (1,800 m.p.h.), higher (75,000 ft.) and farther (4,000 miles) than any commercial airplane in history. To overcome temperatures of 500 degrees at the speed and altitude in which it will operate, it will be covered with titanium and stainless steel six times tougher than aluminum. For the 250 to 350 passengers aboard, it will be a winged arrow, cutting the flying...