Word: glider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end McNamara flew to the Boeing plant in Seattle. Greeted by Boeing President William M. Allen, he looked over the Air Force's space-glider project, Dyna-Soar, amid rumors that it was having technical difficulties and might be scrapped. McNamara also inspected the Gemini two-man space project of NASA in Houston, which seems to overlap Dyna-Soar in some respects. But he apparently had had enough fusses for one week. Pentagon officials said that McNamara will make no final decision on whether to kill Dyna-Soar or merge the two projects-either of which...
...about 1,000 ft. by powered aircraft, sailplaners strap on their oxygen masks and search the skies for "streets"-chains of puffy cumulus clouds marking the presence of thermals that may rise straight up from 5,000 ft. to 30,000 ft.. and can propel a lightweight glider upward at better than 1,000 ft. a minute...
...fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken craft plummeted earthward. Just 500 ft. above the ground, Breunissen bailed out. Shaken, and his face cut by his shattered Plexiglass canopy, he parachuted to the ground-arriving just behind his gaudy yellow glider, which crashed only 50 ft. away...
...confident that the plastic-faced wings can resist the heat of entry into the earth's air. As the paraglider gets deeper into the atmosphere, its speed will drop steadily. At last it will drift slowly near the earth, and the pilot, flying it like an old-fashioned glider, will be able to select a favorable spot on which to land. If he fires his retrorocket at roughly the right time, he may be able to avoid such inhospitable areas as the broad Pacific or the cold wastes of Antarctica...
...make a start in military spacecraft, the Air Force hopes for a 1964 launch of the Dyna-Soar, the manned space glider, which will be the forerunner of more sophisticated vehicles that will be able to maneuver while in orbit...