Word: hinz
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Rising Ratio. The ideal VTOL may come into being through the continuous improvement of jet engines. Research Engineer Earl R. Hinz of Ryan Aeronautical Co. points out that when the static thrust of an airplane's engines exceeds the airplane's weight, a vertical take-off is possible-at least in theory. Apparently no operational jet plane has such thrust at present, but the ratio of thrust to weight-even with the low-power figures still published by the security-morbid U.S. Department of Defense-is climbing rapidly. For the F-86 Sabre jet the ratio is four...
...Hinz has reason to know, because Ryan has built the only serious jet plane designed for vertical takeoff. Financed by the Air Force, Ryan started by testing an almost bare jet engine in a concrete cell, where it rose and fell like a captive balloon. Gradually Ryan added the wings and other makings of a real airplane, and shipped the result last summer to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert for flight testing...
...Hinz added that he was not allowed to reveal his entry name for a period of ninety days because the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, sponsors of the contest, may use that name in a future advertising campaign...
...sportscar will be presented to Hinz next Monday, although Hinz has not yet learned where the presentation will take place. He said that he would probably sell the Thunderbird to help cover his business school expenses next fall. Hinz hopes...
Lowell House will get the color television set. As a college undergraduate, Hinz was required by the contest sponsor to donate the set to some institution, and he has chosen his own House...