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...final approach, Kimes saw a whirlwind at the end of the runway, right in his glide path and carrying enough turbulence to threaten the crippled jet. With a final burst of power he maneuvered around it, got back on course, and landed smoothly. As the plane rolled to a stop, gasoline seeping from cracks under the right wing, the passengers burst into applause, then scrambled out through emergency escape chutes. Twenty-five minutes had elapsed since takeoff...
...future space voyages, the lifting body will be orbited separately. When the astronauts are ready for the trip back, they will rendezvous with the M2-F2, hop in, fire the retrorockets and glide on home...
...computer-operated landing system aboard the Trident is called the Autoflare, developed by Smith's Aircraft Instruments and Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane...
...great rustling of new leaves being turned. Some of the big exhibits have taken steps to shorten their waiting lines by opening earlier, staying open later, taking advance reservations for seats, increasing auditorium seats (General Electric) or speeding the flow with an extra door (Ford). The three-car Glide-a-Ride trains have been rerouted and coded with color to make their destinations less of a mystery, and the $9-an-hour, four-passenger Escorters-famed for their frequent breakdowns-have been eliminated altogether. Admission is up 50? to $2.50, but there are more free shows. Florida's trained...
...Widmerpool, that inspired clown who appears in all his novels as Powell's satiric image of England's "new man." Some characters will presumab y never reappear. Others, notably Lieut. Odo Stevens, who falls in love with another of Nick's sisters-in-law, will obviously glide into view again in later chapters of the saga...