Word: glide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be carried aloft with a full 15,000-lb. load of liquid oxygen and liquid ammonia fuel. The emergency fuel-ejecting system and a dozen other complex gadgets will be air-checked. On another flight the X-15, probably with Crossfield at the controls, will be dropped to glide without power to earth. Then will come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction of the engine's 50,000-lb. thrust. Finally the X-15 will point almost vertically upward and climb like a missile until it leaves nearly all of the atmosphere behind...
...Electras) like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
Cruising on automatic pilot 35,000 ft. over the Atlantic last week, a new Pan American 707 jet transport suddenly nosed into a steepening glide that pressed 124 aboard tightly to their seats. Fighting heavy gravity forces, Captain W. Waldo
...orbit and bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...
...lower altitudes, he must slow down to keep the heat of friction from softening his wings. If he comes too close to the danger point, he will veer upward into thinner air to let his plane cool off. Slowed down and cooled off, the X-15 can then glide to the ground, landing on a pair of nosewheels and two skids near the tail...