Word: gals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American's Flight 843 waited at the end of the main runway at San Francisco's International Airport for takeoff to Honolulu. Aboard the Boeing 707 jet was a full complement of 143 passengers, a crew of ten, two tons of cargo and 13,384 gal. of fuel. At the controls, First Officer Fred Miller, 47, went through the pre-takeoff checklist with Captain Charles Kimes, 44, a freckled, sandy-haired veteran of 16,000 flying hours who had elected to let Miller handle the takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty-five...
...comber, spitting fragments of molten metal into the air. What Miller could not see, because his view was blocked by the inboard engine, was even more chilling. No. 4 engine had dropped off, ripping a hole in the wing skin and puncturing the wing tip tank, igniting its 70 gal. of kerosene. One-third of its 83-ft. right wing was gone. Aerodynamically, Flight 843 should already have crashed...
...climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...
...cars to stop at least twice. Sloppy work by Lotus mechanics had hurt Clark's chances in 1963 (he finished second to Parnelli Jones), and Designer Colin Chapman was determined not to let this happen again. Carefully calculating Clark's rate of fuel consumption (3 mi. per gal. of alcohol), he scheduled a stop every 162 mi. He redesigned the Lotus' gas tank to speed up the refueling process. Finally, he hired a crew of ringers to handle the hoses: the Wood Brothers (actually four brothers and two friends), who are famed around the U.S. stock...
Clark's first pit stop-he took on 58 gal. of alcohol-lasted exactly 19.8 sec. "After that," said Jim, "I knew we had it won." Foyt's pit stop cost him 44.3 sec.-and by the halfway point he was 58 sec. behind Clark. Soon after, pressing to close the gap, Foyt stripped his transmission and coasted helplessly back to the pits. Clark's pit crew flashed the word: FOYT OUT! Grinned Jim: "I was glad that A.J. was through, of course. But I could have licked him anyway...