Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Nov. 18 issue carried the most depressing article I have ever read. "Dog Story" recounts with hilarity a little dog's flight into space. It is sickening to think that there were only gags, guffaws and wisecracks...
...advanced Parkinsonism, a disorder (cause unknown) of nerve nuclei at the base of the brain. But each man had just been freed of such symptoms on the right side. For the first time, after more than five years of helplessness, each could write legibly and feed himself an in-flight meal. This improvement in a disease bafflingly difficult to treat had been wrought by three "buzzes" (actually inaudible), lasting less than two seconds each, of ultra-high-frequency sound waves...
This month's Jet Propulsion is devoted to hypervelocity flight-the perilous maneuvers of futuristic vehicles flying at 10,000 m.p.h. and more in the thin, high fringe of the atmosphere. In the eyes of out-front rocket men, the ballistic missiles that dominate today's military dreams are pretty crude jobs, outmoded even before they are built. Since they follow elliptical courses through space, they must climb more than 1,000 miles to reach a respectable horizontal range. The climb costs vast amounts of fuel, making the missiles expensive and unwieldy. The curve of re-entry...
...Ferri point out that their glide or skip missiles are also promising as vehicles for bringing a human crew back alive from a satellite orbit or a trip to the moon. But it is safe to guess that the enormous amount of money and effort already expended on hypervelocity flight would not be made available without a military motive. There is some slim chance of countering a crude ballistic missile that can follow only a predictable course to a single target. But a hypervelocity missile that moves about as fast and can change its course in mid-flight or take...
...flying machine, a mosquito is not efficient, but since its weight is low it gets 450 million miles per gallon of nectar, which it uses as fuel. In the Scientific Monthly, Professor Brian Hocking of the University of Alberta tells about his experiments with the flight of insects. He puts his subjects on a "flight mill": a delicate arm that turns round and round, propelled by a buzzing insect cemented to its tip. A photoelectric cell counts the revolutions, and from its records the insect's speed, power and mileage can be computed...