Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hazards of the air age is the risk of being roasted in a friction-heated cockpit. The fastest jet planes need refrigerating systems to keep cockpits bearable. But what if the cooler goes haywire while the plane is in flight? Air scientists have wondered what the pilot should...
...science, affects much more than the squabbles of dry-land farmers. The General Electric Co., which developed scientific rainmaking, has stopped all outdoor experimenting. G.E. lawyers get the horrors when they think of what might happen to the company if one of its planes made a dry-ice-sprinkling flight just before a cloudburst. They might be drowned in damage suits for years. Even the Army & Navy have been jumpy since they were accused of "meddling" with dry ice and herding a hurricane toward Georgia (TIME...
Last week, Flight Refuelling Ltd., a British company, was about to test flying tankers on the air's toughest main line: the stormy, midwinter North Atlantic. If the trials (scheduled for this month) are successful, refueling may eventually come into general use on long-distance airlines...
...Flight Refuelling Ltd. has ten specially trained pilots, four Lancaster bombers converted into tankers, and a set of gadgets which Managing Director Sir Alan Cobham, 53, pioneer refueling fan, believes have eliminated the dangers and difficulties of refueling. Among the most important is a system of electronic beacons with which the planes can find one another, even in soupiest weather...
...year in which the flight into the past was accelerated in fiction and nonfiction. But current anxieties broke through. A book called Peace of Mind was the biggest non-fiction seller of the year, a reflection not so much of its own merit as of the numbers of Americans seeking the assurances and affirmations of religion...