Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, began hearings in Washington, it was evident that plenty is. Besides union troubles (TIME, Aug. 15), workmanship on the pads has often been shockingly sloppy; pieces of wooden plank, loose bolts, and cigarette butts have been found in the propellant-fuel storage tanks...
Technamation-is a method of applying transparent plastics to still pictures so that they appear to move when ordinary light, projected through a revolving disc of polarized plastic, is thrown on them. Motion can be controlled so accurately that a Technamated cutaway drawing of a jet engine shows the fuel flowing in and burning, the turbines and gears turning, and gases rushing out the rear, all in the exact timing of a real engine...
...Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read the results into the ready ICBMs that form part of the U.S. retaliatory force...
...Mercedes-Benz's new 220 SE hardtop coupe with a hand-buffed walnut interior trim, and a 134-h.p. fuel-injection engine. Top speed: 105 m.p.h. Price...
...Astrojet gets its pep from a new engine: the Pratt & Whitney turbofan, which develops 17,000 Ibs. thrust. Basically, the turbofan sucks in a larger mass of air than regular jet engines to produce greater thrust with less fuel. A fan, set just inside the air intake (see diagram), pulls in the air. then blasts about 60% of it out through openings on the side of the jet pod to provide just under 50% of the engine's total thrust. The rest of the air is directed into the engine's burning chamber. The engine produces 20% more...