Word: glider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200 miles on an elliptical course outside the atmosphere. As it curved down toward the earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed of many modern fighter craft. Duration of flight from Los Angeles to New York: one hour...
After learning of the new VA move last night, the University chapter of the AVC went on record supporting Senate Bill 2596, proposed by Senator Taft (R-Ohio), which would require the VA to give benefits to all veterans in all courses (except in ballroom dancing, bartending, glider flying, and the like), in institutions founded before September...
Students interested in the exalted art of aerial gliding will get a chance to meet fellow-enthusiasts next Saturday at a meeting of all Boston glider fans at the Puritan Hotel...
...party is being organized by Richard J. Comey '43, 1947 National Soaring Champion, and is an attempt to revive Harvard's pre-war Glider Club, as well as to bring together other clubs in the Boston area already in operation. Proceedings will include cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 6:15, and movies on gliding...
Comey hopes to find 20 students here interested enough in gliding to form the nucleus of a new club. MIT now has an active glider club of 25 members, and owns a two-place utility glider which it uses in flights from Coonamessett Airfield at Falmouth, on Cape...