Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny TV Camera. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has pared down a TV camera to 1¾ by 2 by 5 in., sufficiently small and light to tuck into the thin wings of supersonic jet fighters. With such cameras set to watch the vertical stabilizer, landing gear and other parts of a new plane, pilots can see what is happening to a jet as it happens, rather than filming the action, watching the event from films afterward. Other possible uses include walkie-talkie-lookie...
...Dress. One of the big reasons for the final blowup was one of Lady Docker's dazzling schemes: open a Gold Showroom in Paris featuring one of the gold-plated Daimlers. As the idea grew, so did the expense, until finally Lady Docker simply had to have some gear to go with it: a gold-plated dress, a mink cape and a mink-trimmed hat. The outfit cost $20,-ooo but, said Lady Docker: "Since I was doing nothing more than acting as a model, I decided to charge it against tax." When the tax people objected, Sir Bernard...
...promise you good treatment." For ten days and nights the loudspeaker blared its message in Swahili, but its only answer was the rustle of the forest and the sounds of the beasts. Finally, the Rev. William Wellesley Devitt and his nine native companions picked up their gear and returned to Kijabe (Place of the Wind), where a cluster of grey stone buildings clings to a cliff 7,000 ft. above the valley...
...tells of the return from the great world of a gifted boy. Like young Michael, he was meant for the priesthood, but, like Narrator O'Flaherty himself, who ran away from Blackrock College, the boy found another vocation. He is an artist. When he returns with his painting gear to his native hearth, the villagers regard him and his works as the very devil...
...small delta wing with a fuselage about 30 ft. long. It now has conventional landing gear for test purposes, but is designed as a "tail sitter" (sitting on its tail on take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near...