Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jabara, propeller ace (6½ enemy planes) in World War II, first jumped three MIGs at 35,000 feet. "I picked out the last man and bored straight in," he said. "I fired two bursts which ripped up the fuselage and left wing. The MIG burst into flame and snap-rolled twice. At about 10,000 feet the pilot bailed out. Just as he jumped, the MIG disintegrated." Then Jabara climbed back to 20,000 and got No. 6. (This week Ace Jabara was relieved of combat flying, sent to a Japanese air base as an instructor in jet-fighting...
...this undergraduate timorousness can be seen the flickering of that flame which once burned behind the barricades, that flame which John Locke ennobled into the right of revolution, and that flame which has swept generations of Harvard men out of their stuffy rooms on warm spring evenings and across Cambridge Common to set up tumult and din in the Radcliffe quad...
...freedom is to live long in this world, and if the Radcliffe girl is to continue to experience each spring the thrill of the Sabine women, flat flame must not be allowed...
...whirl in the sun. On most days the valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed of sound...
...Real flame-and-metal tests are done at ranges equipped with elaborate instruments to catch and record every shred of information. The Army, whose domain is ground-launched missiles, does its testing at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. The Navy uses White Sands too and also conducts tests at Point Mugu, between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, or from the Norton Sound. The purpose of both Point Mugu and the Norton Sound is to support the fleet in its introduction of the new weapons...