Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buck Rogers-style Army "jet-flying belt" that is expected to transport a soldier over the treetops at 60 m.p.h. for as far as ten miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which...
...crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence. The French timetable calls for the missiles...
...showed no sign of reviving. Its receiver, turned on ever since it landed on the moon almost four weeks before, seemed incapable of picking up radioed signals and translating them into the commands that would awaken the space traveler's other instruments. Day after day, the scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena tried to make contact; day after day, their only response was silence...
...keep up with demand despite shortages of skilled labor, many companies this year will forgo customary plantwide vacation shutdowns. Machine-tool manufacturers, jet-engine builders and even golf-club makers are swamped with orders. The stock market also perked up last week, prompting talk among analysts of a traditional summer rally. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 17 points to 894, its biggest gain in six weeks...
...flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three-jet Trident is also having troubles, though less serious...