Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vexing and expensive operational problem. Fog costs them some $75 million a year in flight delays, diversions and cancellations. Meteorologists have been battling it in various ways ever since the R.A.F.'s primitive World War II efforts to burn away British pea-soupers by placing barrels of flaming fuel along airport runways. Yet, to the airlines' annoyance, the most promising ventures in the laboratory have often proved impractical at the airfield...
...movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half of its planned range of 4,600 miles-meaning that it would have run out of fuel over the Atlantic on a flight from New York to Paris...
Died. Hans Christian Adamson, 78, author, aviator and, with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, survivor of a famed World War II ordeal at sea; of a coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. Off course and low on fuel, a Flying Fortress with Adamson, Rickenbacker and six others aboard was forced to ditch in heavy Pacific seas. The airmen drifted on rubber rafts for 23 days before being rescued-an experience that led Adamson to write a number of books on sea survival and a biography of the World War I flying ace whose courage he had observed at first hand...
Neither team had easy going. On the second day out, as Caltech's Rippel approached Seligman, Ariz., he downshifted at 40 m.p.h. and heard a sickening crunch. Twenty-three hours passed before a new engine could be flown in from Michigan by sponsoring Electric Fuel Propulsion Inc. At Amarillo, Texas, an electronic nightmare of popping fuses and exploding diodes cost another four hours plus some added penalties for replacements...
...simple matter of fuel presents another problem. A man will happily invest thousands of dollars in a boat, but turn into a pinchpenny when it comes to filling his gas tanks. In Southern California, an area that usually leads the nation in watery accidents, the island of Santa Catalina shimmers enticingly on the horizon, just 24 miles from Los Angeles. "Santa Catalina," says Coast Guard Lieut. Edward McGuire. "You can see it, and the distance seems perfect for a weekend's outing. Everybody makes a try for it, and lots fail: out of gas." In Miami, power-boatmen quickly...