Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulled from the wheels, and the big plane rolled down the runway, circled and rolled back again, swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston was doubly careful; for five days the tests went on before he was satisfied that the plane was ready for flight...
This sort of platform has disadvantages: it must be big enough (up to 200 feet long) to support all the massive gear of a drilling outfit as well as quarters for the crew and storage space for fuel, water, pipe and other supplies. Its size makes it expensive, and its salvage value, if it has to be moved, is very...
...Britain during the war and became acquainted with the trim, lightweight British bicycle (28-33 Ibs., v. the typical 55 Ibs. in the U.S.). The bikes also caught the fancy of U.S. youngsters, who liked such grown-up refinements as generator-operated lights, hand brakes and three-speed gear systems...
Immediately they rolled the class into high gear for the coming game against the blue-shirts of Yale: a soccer game, a special band rounded up by inter-dorm football manager B. G. Griscom, and a dance. Great was the disappointment when the Yalies showed under the optimistic freshman contingent 34 to 0 before 10,000 spectators...
...story on the crisis in the Alaskan salmon fishing and packing industry. The next day came another assignment, which called for equipment that Schulman never before had needed in his 17 years of metropolitan news reporting: high boots. Alaskan mukluks, parka and long underwear. With this gear he flew to Victoria, B.C., drove 135 miles across Vancouver Island to catch a float plane to keep a rendezvous with a boatload of seagoing missionaries on their Christmas visit to the isolated settlers on the island's West Coast...