Word: hr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compared with current fastest flights of 4 hr. 55 min. and 6 hr. 55 min. respectively...
...richest prize in aviation history, $25 billion in plane-building business over the next 30 years. The 2000 is designed to cruise at 65,000 ft., whisk up to 266 travelers at the 1,800-m.p.h. speed of a rifle bullet. It would fly across the U.S. in 2 hr. 10 min. or from New York to Paris in 2 hr. 45 min.* The design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose dips 15° during takeoffs and landings so that pilots can see better...
Last week Valkyrie 2's luck ran out. The cobra-cowled bird lunged into a cloud-flecked morning sky from California's Edwards Air Force Base with Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief B70 test pilot, at the controls. After 2 hr. 15 min. of routine tests, the B70 readied for a less serious assignment, a formation flight with four other jet craft whose engines were made by General Electric Corp. Aim of the maneuver: color photographs for G.E., a Madison Avenue routine that routinely wins Pentagon approval...
Three Britons. It took 1 hr. 20 min. to clear the debris of 16 cars, eleven of them out for good. No sooner was the race restarted than Johnny Boyd, accelerating out of a turn, skidded and clipped the wall...
...there was an understatement. Roberta crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 21 min. 2 sec.-good enough to place 124th out of an otherwise all-male field of 416. Will Cloney, director of the marathon, refused even to admit that she had competed at all: "I know of no girl who ran in the Boston Marathon," he insisted. "She couldn't enter. I do know of a girl who is supposed to have run the same roads as the marathon route today. But that's not the same." No? Roberta is planning to run again next year...