Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Inch. The tapered, square-tipped wings, reaching for 45 ft. to either side of a slim 40-ft. fuselage, gave the U-2 the look of a high-performance sailplane. They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost...
...tank, with a British-made, 105-mm. gun instead of the M48 tank's 90-mm. gun. Running on diesel fuel instead of gasoline, the M-60 can travel 250 miles without refueling, as compared with the M-48's 160 miles. Because it uses aluminum fuel tanks, wheels and other parts, the 51-ton M-60 is actually lighter than the M-48, although the engine and fuel system are heavier. The Army has 360 of the new tanks on order (from Chrysler Corp.), and the 1961 budget provides for an additional...
...Pershing solid-fuel ballistic missile, with a range of more than 300 miles. Mounted on its own tracked vehicle, which serves as transporter and launcher, the Pershing is an enormous improvement over earlier battlefield ballistic missiles, e.g., the Sergeant, which moved in three segments in three trucks, took the crew half an hour to assemble and fire...
...right wing had come off in midair.'' All servicing and takeoff procedures were normal; the pilot had reported no trouble by radio. At the wooded crash site, technicians gathered the twisted fragments and sorted them into the plane's component parts. Metallurgical tests showed that the fuel tanks had been subjected to terrific pressure inside and had exploded. Studying fragments from the baggage compartment by microscope, the experts ruled out sabotage by bomb. Further investigation showed that neither the engines nor the plane's internal wiring system had caused the explosion. Eventually, the scientists eliminated...
Under a searing sun, India's peasant plods endlessly behind his scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from...