Word: mache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Pole; then he wheeled it back all the way to Florida and unleashed one of the Hound Dogs. Still fully operative after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then it turned around as directed, headed south, made "dog leg" evasive turns of well over 90°, and landed on target more than 500 miles down the Atlantic firing range...
...many more g. than he can for even a few seconds. Severe though the players' jolt was, it lasted only 5/1000 of a second. Sponsors of the experiment were engineers from the Stanley Aviation Corp., which is building the escape capsule for the Air Force's new mach 2 bomber, the B58 Hustler. In these capsules the pilot will be fired out of the plane by an explosive charge, will get another jolt when the capsule hits the outside air traveling at supersonic speeds...
Power's recommendations: immediate funds to get SAC's B-52 bombers ready for a round-the-clock airborne alert, large-scale procurement of the B70 Mach 3 bomber, and a big military space program -"control of space may well mean control of the globe in a future war." Power was seconded on the space argument by Major General John B. Medaris, chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command. In an interview with Missiles and Rockets, on the eve of his retirement, Medaris blasted as "utter nonsense" the Administration's dividing the space program into civilian...
Republic won the boost with a red-hot aircraft that can do everything but salute. Described by former Tactical Air Command Chief O. P. Weyland as "the world's most powerful one-man airplane," Republic's Thunderchief will fly 2,000 miles without refueling, hit speeds of Mach 2-plus (1,400 m.p.h.), go high or low and deliver any kind of a bang the Air Force wants. As a tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds...