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...someone was Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz, a Cornell professor of aeronautical engineering. Within minutes, Emanuel and Kantrowitz were deep in conversation. Soon Kantrowitz was heading up a staff at Avco's newly established research laboratory at Everett, Mass...
...What Kantrowitz, who perhaps more than anyone else rates the title of "Mr. Nose Cone," had to offer was experience and expertness in a testing device known as the shock tube. The problems of nose-cone re-entry were fearsome enough on paper. It was understood all too well that an ICBM re-entry body of cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would...
...rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual re-entry speed and temperature. The flow lasts no more than one-thousandth of a second, but it is enough to yield volumes of scientific information. After only six months of work with this violent instrument. Kantrowitz was able to send the Air Force the first firm data about heat and air conditions around a nose cone at its moment of crisis...
...described by Dr. Kantrowitz last week, Avco's miniature sun is a tube 30 inches long filled with very low-pressure gas. When a 4 billion-watt electrical spark from a bank of condensers is discharged across the end of the tube, the magnetic field that surrounds it should expand-so said Gold's theory-into the tube, pushing the gas ahead of it in a small, tame version of a solar shock wave...
...Kantrowitz' indoor waves are only about half as fast as the waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...