Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal advantage over welding, pressing or stamping is its ability to shape metals without the rough handling that such operations ordinarily require. Automated assembly-line operation can be managed easily, and Magneform men are already looking toward the day when most subsidiary parts of an auto engine-carburetors, fuel pumps, etc.-are shaped and stuck together by Magneform...
Chesty Manikins. Actually, the plane, which moved under its own power with its nose wheel locked to a 4,000-ft. rail, reached greater speed than expected, careened far past the anticipated wreck site. The fire, too, was not anticipated, since the DC-7's main fuel tanks were filled with colored water to trace the post-crash distribution of inflammable fuel. An auxiliary tank carried only enough fuel for the short test run but resulted in the fire, which was quickly doused...
...Bertrams were having their own woes. Harold Abbott's Rum Runner developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...
...overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed up-until his reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody and was in front to stay. Up to the Nassau pier roared Rum Runner, and an official waved her in. "Hell, no!" yelled Abbott...
Scientists were conducting pre-launch indoor tests and had just joined the rocket to its payload when the accident occurred. How the 515-pound rocket motor was ignited, causing it to spray flaming fuel throughout the experiment room, is still a mystery...