Word: mach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burdened B-52 climbed to 38,000 ft., which is the altitude where the X-15 will be launched in free flight. In the dense lower air the off-center weight called for trim adjustments, but at the critical launch height and speed Mach 0.8, there was no trouble at all. After 70 minutes B-52 Pilot Charles Bock gently eased the coupled pair back down to a landing...
...come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction of the engine's 50,000-lb. thrust. Finally the X-15 will point almost vertically upward and climb like a missile until it leaves nearly all of the atmosphere behind. It may rise 150 miles traveling at Mach 4. If it returns from this jaunt with its wings unmelted and its pilot alive, the door to true space flight will be open at least a crack. Return to the earth from a satellite orbit or a trip to Mars should not be very much more difficult...
...m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader for an initial $170 million (23 planes) Navy contract...
...Among them: twelve-year-old Gabriele (Clonisch), whose Schokoladeneis (Chocolate Ice Cream) has already sold 250,000 copies, although she started singing into her businessman-father's dictating machine only a few months ago; and nine-year-old Brigitte (Reisberger), who has a big hit called Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat...
...President Bernard F. Gira and Executive Vice President Herbert J. Peterson. After working as purchasing agents in the aircraft industry, the two joined forces in 1955 to make electronic instruments for the missile age. They turn out instruments that tell an aircraft's angle of attack, compute its Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit...