Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLUME RIDE. "There are thrills by the hundred on this you can bet, but we can't be responsible when ya come back wet," warns a sign at the turnstile. After some tame swerves and curves through serpentine, sky-blue waters and up a steep lift-one big splash and some spray in the face...
Fidel Castro must have laughed till he split his fatigues. Incredibly, disastrously, Manolo Ray, the Cuban freedom fighter who had promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves...
...answer can be read in the big landing flaps at the rear edge of its wings. On the landing approach the flaps extend at an unusually sharp angle; sometimes they droop as much as 70°. Ordinary flaps would not work effectively at this angle; instead of giving more lift, they would merely create drag as the air passing over them burbled into turbulence...
...though, the steep-angled flaps have help. Just ahead of their leading edges, where they join the wing, streams of high-pressure air from the compressors of the jet engines spurt out of nozzles and bathe the flaps' upper surfaces, smoothing the air flow and creating extra lift. To supply enough air at 100 lbs. per sq. in., the engines must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that can be controlled...
...Government often uses its vast powers to restrain big companies and give the smaller fellows a lift. But last week, as the federally sponsored Communications Satellite Corp. sold its first 5,000,000 shares (at $20 apiece) to U.S. communications companies, executives of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were pleasantly surprised by the size of their allotment: 2,895,750 shares. That will give A.T. & T. by far the largest stake-a dominant 29% ownership-in the space company, which will transmit television programs, telephone calls and telegraph messages...