Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames may consume the bird only minutes later-the men of Cape Canaveral are testing and proving everything from an idea to a pump, amassing the knowledge that will ensure the success of man's epochal flight into space as well as the reliability of space-ranging weapons...
...your Feb. 24 article "Philadelphia's New Problem": We have consistently insisted that in the city of Philadelphia Negroes shall have the right to buy homes and live wherever they desire. It is true that this has had a tendency to hasten the flight to the suburbs of younger white couples. It is, therefore, essential, if the suburban communities refuse to do so voluntarily, that there be a state anti-discrimination law. Builders of housing developments should also be compelled by federal regulations to abolish discrimination and segregation in any development built with the aid of federal funds...
...real objective, of course, is manned space flight, and Putt sketched three Air Force projects headed in that direction. The first is the rocket plane X-15 (TIME, March 3), which Putt thinks can be beefed up enough to carry an orbiting human and return him to earth alive. The second is DYNA-SOAR (from "dynamic soaring"), a vehicle that will use what Putt calls "boost-glide flight." It will be boosted up like a rocket, but will have wings and controls. The pilot can permit it to orbit freely around the earth for a while, or he can bring...
Manifold Pressures. In Columbus, Ohio, a TWA Constellation made an unscheduled landing, and police took Flight Engineer Eugene Manning to a hospital, where, after 24 uncertain hours, the trouble was diagnosed as air sickness...
...world's longest straightedge is the 6½-mile track at the Air Force Missile Development Center, N. Mex., which has started to flight-test missiles while they are still on the ground. The virtues of this system are many. Instead of destroying itself in a single flight, a missile shot along the track can be recovered undamaged and tested many more times. It can be timed accurately and photographed at close range...