Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude record was set by Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum...
...104C did the work, but Captain Jordan contributed importantly by flying a perfect profile. At 39,800 ft. he kicked in his afterburner and accelerated to Mach 2.36, which is close to the F-104C's maximum permissible speed at that altitude. Then he nosed up at an ideal 47°. At 40,000 ft. he dumped his cabin pressure, and his pressure suit inflated. His afterburner went out at 75,000 ft. He shut off his air-starved engine at 95,000 ft. The ship coasted up without power and porpoised over at 103,395 ft., beating...
President Jordan, who is an authority on English History of the Stuart and Tudor periods, announced his resignation last spring, effective in January...
...concluding address as President of Radcliffe College last night, Wilbur K. Jordan spoke on the life of Ann Radcliffe, the seventeenth century English philantropist for whom the College is named. Although gaps exist in the historical documentation of her life, Jordan said, there is abundant evidence that Ann Radcliffe was a "truly remarkable woman" and a "sagaciously tough lady...
...Jordan will present a lecture, "Ann Radcliffe and Her Times," based upon his research on philanthropy in 17th century England. Ann Radcliffe, a member of this early charitable movement, established the first endowed scholarship fund at Harvard College...