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...broke into curling eddies that dragged at the plane and drank up the engine's power. In theory, the scientists knew that this "burble" effect could be prevented by sucking into the wing a thin layer of air, and with it the incipient eddies. The remaining air would glide past the whole wing in smooth "laminar flow" (see diagram...
...Smooth Glide. After three tense hours there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite...
...saddening to learn that only 9% of U.S. boatmen are sailboat enthusiasts. Even more so to conclude that the remaining 91% fail to experience or comprehend the beauty and sense of satisfaction a sailor receives when he combines his skill with the forces of nature to make white sails glide...
...workmanlike, and Rouben Ter-Arutunian's sets provide the required amount of variety and glitter. And for the touch of glamor that looks good in the ads, there is the star, Gwen Verdon. As a result of the combined reputations of all these people, the vehicle ought to glide smoothly through a year's run on Broadway. It's only too bad that somewhere along the assembly line, somebody forgot to install an engine...
When Elizabeth and Philip glide along the Seine on a royal barge, they will be sung at by 60 separate groups of folk singers in native costume on the Pont Louis-Philippe and serenaded by 500 little boys in red surplices from the Pont Neuf. As the barge nears the Ile de la Cité, over Notre Dame will flash a mammoth display of pinwheels, Roman candles and flares, featuring (for the first time in pyrotechnic history) heliotrope skyrockets...