Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delph finished up the S.O. course in style but was relieved to have it behind him. He complained that during the last few weeks he has had so much fuel for thought that he went away from the final exam with gas on his stomach...
...what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load, reduced the fuel load of planes flying through this gateway to Europe. Canada acquired this airfield too by the new deal...
...fast, armed transports to carry troops, weapons and supplies for invasions. Just as badly needed are tankers, not so much because of any slump in building (and certainly not because of losses to enemy action), but because new bases like Saipan call for the hauling of a lot more fuel and gasoline over greater distances. Said Admiral Home: "It isn't the enemy but the rapid extension of our own operations that is putting the squeeze...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...
...speed at which a rocket would have to travel to get free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels...