Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stood on top of his spaceship's white titanium hull. He touched it with his bulky thermal gloves. He burned around like Buck Rogers propelling himself with his hand-held jet. He floated lazily on his back. He joked and laughed. He gazed down at the earth 103 miles below, spotted the Houston Galveston Bay area where he lives and tried to take a picture of it. Like a gas station attendant, he checked the spacecraft's thrusters, wiped its windshield. Ordered to get back into the capsule, he protested like a scolded kid. "I'm doing...
...degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan-at the same time Jim McDivitt was there. After Michigan, White went to test-pilot school, later was assigned to a necessary but frustratingly tangential job having to do with the space program. At the controls of a jet cargo plane, he would go into a screaming, precisely plotted dive that would create the zero-gravity weightlessness of space ride. In this capacity, he helped in the training not only of John Glenn but of Ham and Enos, the chimpanzees who broke into space before men did. White figures that...
...Woodward. Rosenquist's work, titled F-111, is 85 ft. long by 10 ft. high, or 13 ft. longer than its namesake, the U.S.A.F.'s new variable-winged jet fighter-bomber. The painting is made up of 51 panels, some aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic...
...strict economic standards, building modern passenger ships to ply the Atlantic makes little sense. A luxury liner costs upwards of $50 million; a utilitarian jet costs one-tenth as much, can carry 15% more passengers over the same distance in the same amount of time. Moreover, the airlines have captured four-fifths of the Atlantic business, and several shipping companies are in trouble. These cold facts do not, however, chill the warmly sentimental directors of the state-run Italian Line. In the greatest investment in money and tonnage ever made by a shipping company in a single year, the line...
Died. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, 82, pioneer British aircraft designer, who built his first plane in 1908 with $5,000 lent by his grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...