Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct Sequencer): the ground-operated mechanism that destroys a missile in flight...
Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business...
...Water Flight. Last summer the committee (backed in part by the National Science Foundation) called in some 100 physicists, science writers and high school teachers, turned out an integrated text supplemented by ingenious do-it-yourself equipment (TIME, July 29). Throughout, the committee tightly knit together its subject material; e.g., wave action is presented early in the course, is later used as a common denominator to connect such ostensibly different subjects as light, sound, atomic structure. Concentrating on basic principles, the course even treats as broad a subject as heat in its relationship to kinetic theory and to the conservation...
...their classrooms for testing, the reaction was prompt and positive. Item: at Exeter, Physics Teacher Judson Cross hustled into the shower room one night to break up what sounded like a water fight, found the showers full on and his boys shouting with glee as they "stopped" drops in flight by peering through simple stroboscopes made in the course...
...COLLISION DANGER is diminishing. CAB reports that near misses of aircraft in flight averaged 1.4 per day in last quarter of 1957 v. 3.6 in first quarter. Reason: at urging of Government and pilots' union, more pilots are flying on instruments in good as well as bad weather...