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...international recognition in the '40s for his research on the characteristics of aircraft in flight, switched to spacecraft after the Government picked him in 1945 to create an organization to conduct freeflight experiments (and found time along the way to invent the nation's first successful hydrofoil system). He pushed the early work on manned satellites, was named to direct Project Mercury in 1958, set up the vital standards that made last week's successful flight possible-and stuck to them under pressure. Gilruth, who with Glenn received NASA's Distinguished Service Medal from President Kennedy...
Fighting against this trend, some major airframe makers tried diversification-turning to everything from hydrofoil boats to garbage disposal plants. Famed old Glenn L. Martin Co. retired altogether from the airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products as cement. In time, most of the major planemakers went over to missiles and space. Today, General Dynamics has its Atlas, Boeing Airplane Co. its Dyna-Soar and Minuteman, Douglas its Skybolt, and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. its Mercury capsule. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., which is the prime contractor for the Discoverer...
...with the U.S. over its recession jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's office. No-vacancy signs were up in the Virgin Islands, now linked to Puerto Rico by a 40-passenger hydrofoil speedboat. Barbados, easternmost of the Windward chain, bustled; Trinidad impatiently awaited the completion of a $9,500,000 Hilton hotel...
...HYDROFOIL USE may increase as Grumman Aircraft, largest U.S. amphibious plane manufacturer, acquires half-interest (for about $250,000) in Long Island's Dynamic Developments, Inc., a hydrofoil research organization. Hydrofoil (a finlike device) operates in water like airplane wings, using hydrodynamic pressures to lift hull so that boat or seaplane rides on stilts with minimal resistance, making possible faster speed, smoother ride, faster takeoff...
...hydrofoil, or water-wing, used to help a seaplane off the water, retracted later to cut down air resistance...