Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week by Ling-Tempco-Vought, Inc. of Dallas, the XC-142A transport has four turbo-prop engines and a wing that can be tilted for takeoff so that its four 15.6-ft. propellers point upward. When they all are pulling together, the props should generate enough direct lift to raise the plane vertically. When safely above obstacles, the pilot will gradually tilt the wing into normal flying position. The plane has yet to be flown, but its designers admit that it is no speedster. It will cruise at less than 300 m.p.h., and its operating radius with full load...
...ducts. Neither plane has yet completed successful tests, but two years ago the British were already flying the Hawker Siddeley P-1127, which has a single jet engine with 13,500 lbs. of thrust. During takeoff, the engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane off the ground. At cruise altitude, the exhaust is switched to the rear and the plane flies in normal jet-plane style. The P-1127 has done everything claimed for it, but its payload is small, and it is too slow to be of much value...
...LIFT ENGINES: In yet another approach to the problem, France's Dassault Mirage III-V will pack eight small Rolls-Royce jet engines thrusting downward. When well in the air, a larger jet will take over and push the plane forward at supersonic speed. Its designers admit that the vertical engines will be dead cargo most of the time, but they think vertical engines will have less effect on performance than dual-purpose engines that are too powerful for efficient horizontal flight. A German V/STOL, the Bölkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly...
Callister delivered it. Walnut Creek's roofs lift the eye, its patios are big enough to let the sun in, instead of being the penumbral little fakes so beloved of corner-cutting contractors. And there is no scamping of the invisible details. Air-conditioning ducts are oversized to eliminate duct noise, water pipes are oversized to eliminate water moaning, walls and ceilings are fully insulated, and almost every partition is a floor-to-ceiling storage wall. Doorways are 36 in. wide to permit easy passage of wheelchairs, wall plugs are 2 ft. off the floor to minimize stooping, light...
...personal income last year, will continue to lure industry with sunshine, low-wage labor and generous tax concessions. Last week multimilliondollar expansion programs were announced by Lockheed in Georgia, International Paper in Alabama, Reynolds Metals in Florida, Allied Chemical in South Carolina. Growth in chemicals and oil helped lift personal income in Louisiana well above the national average of 5% last year...