Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial help from the Guggenheim Foundation, Goddard continued his experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. In 1935 one of his rockets, affectionately dubbed Nell, climbed to 7,500 feet and flew faster than sound. In such experiments over the years, Goddard developed the basics of later rocket technology-gyroscopic stabilizers, fuel pumps, self-cooling motors, landing devices. When diagrams of the Germans' V-2 reached the U.S. in 1944, some scientists observed that the internal structure strikingly paralleled Goddard's old Nell...
PHASE 3: liquid oxygen fuel is slowly pumped into the missile from nearby refrigerated tanks...
...armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were...
...helicopters fanned out from small, serviceable fields, brought back groups of missionaries who were then flown to the larger centers by the Beavers and a DC-3 borrowed from the U.S. embassy in South Africa. The choppers usually went out loaded with fuel drums, and refueled when necessary-sometimes in the air. Only navigational aids available were ancient and outdated road maps, which were so inadequate that pilots sometimes had to set down in a village and ask for directions. Congolese guides were little help; from a few hundred feet up, the familiar jungle looked utterly strange to them...
Another problem is the density of the air in the equatorial Congo, which forced the choppers to use more fuel per mile than at their Seventh Army base in Stuttgart, West Germany. Several choppers were shot at by Congolese soldiers who mistook them for Belgian craft. Pilot Captain James Sanders of Nashville, Tenn. had his helicopter holed eight times by machine-gun bullets while on a search mission near Inkisi. But, says Captain Sanders philosophically, "the Congolese are right friendly when they find out you're not Belgian. They come up and shake your hand. I was impressed...