Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth failure in five attempts to launch a Vanguard satellite...
...Eastern Solomons. Commander Harry Donald Felt, 40, leader of a bomb and torpedo air group from the carrier Saratoga, was snapping out his orders as he eyed the Japanese light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group's four to ten 1,000-lb.-bomb hits...
...runway at all is to design it so it can stand on its tail like the Ryan Vertijet and zoom directly upward. The simple, brute-force way is to blast it into the air with rocket power. Last week the Air Force announced that the "zero-length" launch, done in the past with less advanced airplanes, has been accomplished with North American's supersonic F-100D fighter...
...they do it, and they always do it different." Last week, on Dinah Shore's Chevy Show, Elaine and Mike supplied a sample: a long-distance phone conversation between a self-pitying neurotic mother and her feverishly busy scientist son who is too busy trying to launch a balky U.S. satellite to call or write. (Mike: I feel awful. Elaine: Honey, if I could believe that I'd be the happiest mother in the world...
When its shiny new DC-8 takes off on its maiden test flight this week, Douglas will launch a major challenger to Boeing's already-tested 707 in the jet airliner race. To sell such new airliners, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are adopting an old-fashioned marketing technique: the trade-in allowance. Boeing has agreed to take back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some...