Word: mache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mach 4 & Plus...
...jets develop some power at low subsonic speeds, but they are efficient only above Mach i. For speeds even higher, it is possible to design a 20-inch-diameter ramjet that will develop (theoretically) as much as 30,000 h.p. They use a corresponding amount of fuel. Northrop's turbine expert Tom Quayle calls the ramjet "the hungry speed animal...
...jets. They think of them chiefly as power plants for guided missiles, those "uninhabited aircraft" with which warring continents might blast one another to rubble from different sides of the earth. Super-enthusiasts think they may have a peacetime future also. A speed-hungry traveler, ramjet propelled at Mach 3, may start from New York at noon and flying west would see the sun sink rapidly in the east. He'd be in Honolulu in time for breakfast the same...
...should people want to go that fast, or even at a conservative Mach 1.2? When asked this question, air designers look stunned or hurt. They recover quickly and answer with ringing confidence: "People want to go fast...
...pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...