Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sized up the situation: he was clearly getting the cool hello. On hand was a little group of welcomers from the U.S. embassy led by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, and the 56 U.S. newsmen who had preceded Nixon by an hour in a record-setting (8 hr. 45 min.), nonstop flight in a new, long-legged Boeing 707 from New York. The face of the Soviet Union was the familiar grin...
...Arnold once observed, "its strategic center will be the North Pole." Last week, as the brief northern summer edged into Canada's high Arctic, Canada and the U.S. were busy pushing their strategic frontiers closer to the North Pole. At Churchill and Frobisher Bay, three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts for DEW line bases, airfields and weather...
Sonic control has many possibilities besides smoothing the pressure curve of burning fuel. It may develop into a way to program the complete flight of a solid-propellant missile. Shifting sound levels could vary the thrust to give the rocket better maneuvering capabilities; fuel might also be compounded that does not burn at all unless the rocket's cavity is filled with powerful sound, thus accomplishing total cutoff with the whistle. The big spaceships that NASA plans to toss into space will use clusters of rocket engines. If they are solid fueled and equipped with whistles, they could...
...sport? Well, if it was not much like a Rugger match or punting on the Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London...
Miss Schlamme, a native of Austria, was driven from her home by the Nazis during the War. In the course of her flight to England and later to America, she traveled through many different countries and discovered that singing was a universal means of communication. This she demonstrated very effectively when she sang "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" in English, Africaans, French, Spanish, Russian, and Hebrew...