Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
...mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours. A few days later an El Al Israel Airlines Britannia rode the jet wind from New York to London...
...final moments of the flight," burbled a story in the New York Post, "the space passenger lost all sense of up and down." So. it seemed, had the Post as well as hundreds of other free-world newspapers that blasted off last week with an Associated Press report that Russia had shot a manned missile into space. For, despite such hedged headlines as the New York Daily News's REDS SAY ROCKET MAN ROSE 186 MI., it was palpably clear from the start that 1) the Reds had said no such thing, and 2) the coming of the Sputnik...
Competitive Flight. Last week's space junket took off on a typewriter at 7:52 p.m. Monday in Paris, where Agence France-Presse, on a telephoned tip from its Moscow Bureau Chief Constantin Zar-nekau, flashed: "For the first time, a man has been put aboard a Soviet rocket, it is believed in Western circles." Forty-one minutes later, after communicating with Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Shapiro, United Press put on the wire a wary note to editors stating that there were "rumors" in Moscow of a manned rocket but "no official confirmation." Reuters also sidled...
...A.F.P. flash, the Associated Press, biggest news agency of them all, filed a Moscow-datelined bulletin (which was actually written in London): "The Soviet Union has launched an experimental rocket 300 kilometers into the atmosphere with a human aboard, reliable sources said here tonight." So began a competitive stratosphere flight that outdid all competitors in irresponsibility...