Word: mache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mach .81. Modern test pilots and designers do not measure a fast plane's speed in miles per hour, but in "Mach numbers." Mach 1 is the speed of sound in the air through which the plane is passing. In the warm air near the ground it is about 765 m.p.h., but it falls (to about 650 m.p.h. at 40,000 ft.) in the cold air of high altitudes. Well below these speeds, the "sonic barrier" makes itself felt, jamming an airplane's controls, destroying the lift of its wings. The P-80R got up to Mach...
Designer Johnson believes that Mach 1 will be reached (and probably surpassed simultaneously) in about three years. He is sure that neither the P-80R nor any similar airplane can ever fly that fast...
...post-war Advocate will first see the light of day on Monday, Mach 24, just five days before the start of the spring vacation, according to an announcement made yesterday by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47, interim editor of the magazine...
Captain-coach Tom Bridge had expected to take down the entire team, but official limitations kept the number down to 20. Nat Brackett and Jay Hurley will lead attackmen Bill Build and Jack Roemer in their foray against the Blue nets. Mach Broderick, Miles Overholt, Ed Davis, and Don Page will attempt to take the ball away from the docile Blue attackmen before they do any damage...
...schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching the end of each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles hydraulic devices which raise & lower landing gear. All her salary goes...