Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from U.S. servicemen. A marine rushed through a solid wall of flame to rescue a little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite all efforts, 16 people died (twelve of them children...
Cuba's Fidel Castro and his bearded rebels are probably not up to Trujillo's. Castro's warriors carry good U.S. arms, number 25,000. His defection-ridden air force includes 18 B-26s, seven T-33 Lockheed jet trainers, no jet fighters...
West Point's All-American fullback, Air Force Major Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, 34, got an official citation for not fumbling in a tight spot. Piloting a Super Sabre jet last month in England, Blanchard suddenly found his aircraft on fire. He could have simply hit the silk-but his plane might have plunged into a heavily populated area. Doc Blanchard made his choice, rode his winged torch down to a happy landing. Said an Air Forceman: "One of the finest flying jobs I ever...
...hydrogen cools the reactor, keeps it from melting or vaporizing. At the same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...
Kiwi-A's actual thrust is probably quite small. The difficulties are so great that no one knew whether such an engine would work at all. The reactor must run extremely hot; otherwise the hydrogen will not form an effective gas jet. Thus Kiwi-A's innards are probably made of tricky, heat-resistant metals such as tungsten, tantalum and molybdenum. Control is far more difficult than with chemical engines, because the flow of hydrogen must be balanced perfectly against the production of energy by the reactor. A slight maladjustment of the controls might melt the nuclear engine...