Word: mache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordered back to the U.S., Glenn ended up as a test pilot for the Navy's Chance Vought F8U Crusader fighter. On one flight, Glenn showed the determination that later landed him in the cockpit of Friendship 7. He had the F8U up to Mach 1.2 when something snapped and the plane veered sharply. Most test pilots would have gingerly guided the plane back to the base, but Glenn, scribbling notes all the while, stubbornly pushed the fighter up to Mach 1.2 two more times to see if it would happen again. It did. When he finally landed, Glenn discovered...
...League's fledgling New York Mets. Asked if he thought he could alchemize a champion from the best dross that Whitney money could buy, Casey instinctively retorted: "I expect to win every day." Then, from the most voluble player in the league came an uncharacteristic halt in the Mach 2 verbiage. "Maybe," sighed Casey, "I'll be shell-shocked...
...mills of bureaucratic justice at the Federal Aviation Agency grind somewhat slower than Mach 2-but sure. Onto the agency's docket for "careless" piloting went none other than the FAA Administrator himself, ex-Navy Jet Jockey Najeeb Halaby, 46, who a month ago grazed a United Air Lines Viscount while taxiing out of Washington's National Airport. Squeaked one of the mice in charge of chasing the cat: "The case is being processed in the same way as for any airman...
...COLUMBUS (Ohio) DIVISION makes the sleek Vigilante, the Navy's Mach 2 carrier-based bomber...
From planes, Northrop made a short jump into recoverable Mach 2 target missiles for ack-ack training. The target drones, of which Northrop is the world's largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...