Word: freeflight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager, he watched his desk disappear under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil of the P-51 fighter of World War II, a supersonic freeflight wind tunnel in which a model plane is fired into a blast...
Safer Than Driving. Right from the start of last week's meet, Paul MacCready rode the upcurrents as surely as Willie Hoppe playing the caroms on a billiard table. He finished second in the freeflight for distance, covering 241.7 miles, moved out in front in overall standings with a fifth in the 62-mile race south to St. Etienne, and in the next event, an Alpine flight, he practically flew off with the title...
Honest John is a freeflight artillery rocket that can carry atomic warheads some 15 miles. Another is the "Corporal."which can be guided by remote control to targets 100 miles away...
...Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but packs a much bigger punch. Even carrying ordinary explosives, one "Honest John" furnishes fire power equal to hundreds of artillery shells...