Word: gs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brigadier General, GS Washington...
...Strength. Last week nearly a full wing (58 planes) of F-84 Gs (new type Thunderjets belonging to the Strategic Air Command) touched down at a bomber base in central Japan after a leisurely multistop flight over the Pacific in which inflight refueling was successfully used. The F-84 Gs replaced a garrison wing of Thunderjets which went to Korea to fight. From Japan the new planes can reach any target in southern Manchuria, and they are equipped with bomb racks for carrying "tactical" (small) atomic bombs. Official Washington pooh-poohed any notion that the U.S. would use atomic weapons...
...doctors have learned to spin the rats on a special centrifuge. When G is high enough (19 Gs or so), the distorted rat is doused with liquid nitrogen, which quickly freezes him. Then the doctors can open him up and find where his organs were when G was pulling at them...
...when the plane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, G takes charge. Every part of the pilot's body grows unnaturally heavy. His cheeks sag; his jaw drops open; the blood rushes out of his brain; his guts crowd into his belly. Too many Gs can black a man out, cripple him or even kill him. Air battles of the future, fought above the speed of sound, will be won by pilots equipped to outwit...
...horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola" where the helpless "airman" sits. The gondola can be tilted at any angle, directing the G-force in any direction through the passenger's body. Driven by a 4,000-h.p. motor, the arm can generate 15 Gs (much more than a man can stand) in less than two seconds. At full speed, the gondola moves at 174 m.p.h. Generating 40 Gs, it whooshes like a captive hurricane...