Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Painfully Solemn. Some of them insist that it was caused by a comet; others prefer to believe that a huge, extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Siberia, or perhaps jettisoned nuclear fuel that exploded and dug the crater. In 1959, an expedition of students from Tomsk University claimed to have found that the area is still radioactive, and so many Russians accepted their observations that the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent its own expedition-which found no abnormal radioactivity...
...when economy fares will temporarily climb back to almost what they are now. But the gamble on lower rates for most of the year has already paid off, and has major implications for the supersonic future. By assuring most airlines of setting new passenger records this year, it adds fuel to the argument of some airmen that the best way to get passengers up is to bring all fares down...
...feet in diameter that gulp enormous amounts of the thin air at high altitudes. Lightened by liberal use of titanium, the engines have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...
...power plant uses a special kerosene-based fuel that contains additives to keep it burning at extreme altitudes. There is some means of narrowing the air intake when operating near the ground so that the engines will not be choked by dense, low-altitude...
...uses impractical rocket propulsion for short bursts of speed, it is the fastest airplane that has ever flown, and it has accumulated vast experience in Mach 3 flight. It is not an airliner itself; it carries only a three-man crew, and most of its fuselage is crammed with fuel. But the great supersonic airliners that the U.S. is anxious to start building will fly at All speed and altitude. In many vital aspects they will be the children of Kelly Johnson's latest creation...