Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force. On a test flight in Texas, the system worked perfectly; its calm voice gave prompt warning of many simulated hazards. Then the pilot, Major H. T. Deutschendorf, started his landing approach. Gina spoke once more, warning that his airplane's alternator was out and that fuel pressure was low on the port side. The major had had enough tests for the day. "Shut the damned thing off," he shouted to his crew. A crew member replied that no more hazards had been simulated. Suddenly the major realized that this time the warnings were real. He followed VIPS...
...engine is a gas turbine affair-adapted in principle from the turbojet airplane engine-which Chrysler has been working on for years (TIME, March 29, 1954). A compressor forces air into a chamber where it is heated and then mixed with fuel (see diagram). A single spark plug ignites the mixture, and the expanding hot gases drive two turbines. The first turbine turns the original air compressor, and the second turns the power shaft that connects to the rear wheels. The exhaust gases are recycled into a regenerator to heat the incoming...
...turbine engine provides many advantages over the conventional piston-driven types. It weighs one-third less, has fewer moving parts (and thus causes less vibration), needs little overhauling, and can probably outlast an auto body. It requires no oil changes or Antifreeze, can use any kind of fuel that can be sent through a pipe and that will burn with air. "It will run beautifully on diesel fuel, peanut oil, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, furnace oil-or even French perfume," says Engineer George Huebner Jr., conjuring visions of service stations equipped with Chanel No. 5 atomizers...
Cheap Bird. Known in the Air Force as the "poor man's missile." the Minuteman is a bird of a different feather from the familiar Titan and Atlas intercontinental missiles. As "first generation" weapons, both the Titan and Atlas burn highly volatile liquid fuels that require a trouble-plagued network of pumps and pipes. Fueling and firing the Titan and Atlas is an intricate business-many experts doubt that they would ever get off the pad with just 15 minutes' warning. In contrast, the Minuteman burns a solid, rubberlike fuel developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. Once the Minuteman...
...drops little aphorisms like petals: "A genius is a man who can convince himself he isn't"; "Television critics report accidents to eyewitnesses"; "To make the world go around, men must have two feelings-unhappiness, to make them seek a better life, and egotism, to supply the fuel that keeps them going when they don't find it." He has a huge vocabulary, which sometimes slices into the rough. "Don't misconcept this," he will say, or "That guy is a man of great introspect." But his favorite adjective is "beautiful," his favorite noun...