Word: mach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cars, including the LTD, which will be wider and lower, boast such features as a "flight cockpit" instrument array, a short rear deck and the long hood that is fast becoming a Detroit cliche. Mustang, the car that inspired the look, is becoming fast, period. Next year's "Mach 1" model will be able to live up to the name of its "Cobra Jet Ram-Air V8" engine. Top speed: 150 m.p.h.-plus...
...force now consists of 62 twin-engine Mirage IV bombers and a growing stockpile of conventional atom bombs of up to 150 kilotons each. The Mach 2.2 Mirage carries a single bomb, and from such bases as Istres in Southern France can be over Russian cities in a half-hour. France has also success fully tested a medium-range missile called sol-sol-balistique stratégique, and plans to have 50 of them by 1970. In Haute-Provence, workers are building underground silos from which the missiles will be launched. This year France launched Le Redoubtable, the first...
...just above the ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land slowly, sprint at Mach 2.5 or loiter for hours, McNamara's experts calculated that $1 billion could be saved if the services used the same basic craft...
...record of 4,260 m.p.h., or 6.33 times the speed of sound. Last week the once all-black plane sported a white paint job covering new ablative material purposely designed to char in flight as the aircraft engages in tests that should push its maximum speed to a blistering Mach 8 by 1969. Snugged under its wings, the X-15 now carries twin, droppable tanks loaded with additional fuel needed to achieve such speed...
...display, virtually a flying aerodynamics laboratory, is the survivor of two prototypes. Needle-nosed, delta-winged and resembling two giant praying mantises, both of the 6-engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that...