Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Winans heard that the circular take-off had been demonstrated as a stunt by Jean Roche in 1938. In 1950 Winans got from the Sanders Aviation Co. of Riverdale, Md. the special equipment (a hub, spindle and release gear) that Roche used, but his attempts at that time to take off in a circle were not a success...
...Flying Saucer from Mars Author Allingham even prints photographs of the Martian, looking very like a crofter with galluses flapping, and (separately) of his saucer, which has circular portholes, three-ball landing gear and a shiny dome with a rod sticking up from...
...flyer (he has logged some 5,000 air hours and today, at 57, is still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...
Sailors in orange life preservers over foul-weather gear bustled through the routine tasks of taking a sub to sea at Groton, Conn, one morning last week. When the Nautilus had quietly backed into the Thames River, made a smooth 180° turn and started pushing its massive, whalelike snout south toward Long Island Sound, the abovedeck crew relaxed and waved to the workers lining the docks. At n a.m. on Jan. 17, the Nautilus' blinker snapped out a historic message: "Under way on nuclear power." The crew-and more than 60 special officers and civilians-were quietly jubilant...
...Once in gear, the plan will have selected M.I.T. students, no matter what their specialty, spend at least 40% of their time in the humanities and social sciences. If the student wishes to become a professional engineer or scientist, he may take an additional year and get a second bachelor's degree in his specialty, or an additional two years and get his master's. For those interested in such a subject as economics. M.I.T will expand its broad social science Course XIV, but the new Humanities Course XXI will rotate around two major themes: American Industrial Society...