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...empire was a satirist's paradise, as Musil demonstrated in his mammoth novel A Man Without Qualities, it was also the most exciting intellectual center in Europe. There were Mach and Boltzman in physics, Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg in music, Adler and Freud in psychology. There were also dozens of writers and journalists, including the brilliant, mordant social critic Karl Kraus, whose anti-paper Die Fackel (The Torch) was dedicated to making its readers "morally aware of the essential distinction between the chamber...
...through dense atmosphere, several scientific groups rocketed their instruments as high as 130 miles from Alaska's Poker Flat, White Sands, N. Mex., and East Quoddy, N.S. The moon's shadow raced across Canada at a speed around 2,000 m.p.h., so chasing it at anything below Mach 2 could not be very productive. But one group, headed by Dr. Arthur Cox of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, took off from Spokane in a jet transport, intercepted the shadow near Hudson Bay and raced it. At a speed of 565 m.p.h., they gained almost two minutes for their...
Jones is convinced that his antisymmetric "bird" would fly well at supersonic speeds (as high as Mach 1.5 or approximately 1,000 m.p.h.), and would do so at considerably lower cost than other SSTs. On takeoffs, with its wing at right angles to the fuselage, he says, the plane would require only one-fourth the power of the Russian TU-144 or the Concorde, both of which have fixed delta wings. Thus it could operate with conventional, relatively quiet turbofan jets, sharply reducing noise on landings and takeoffs. It would also prevent pollution of the stratosphere by burning less fuel...
Restricted Routes. Cost is not the only difficulty. Because it creates a sonic boom when it exceeds the speed of sound, the Concorde will be barred from flying over most populated areas at its optimum speed of Mach 2.05. That limitation will reduce the number of routes on which it can be used; for example, it will not be able to fly super-sonically between New York and Los Angeles or between London and Rome. Even at subsonic speeds, Concorde is hardly an environmental advance: on takeoff it will be as loud as a Boeing 747 and perhaps louder...
Speaking of tasting it, Quincy's John Ferullo did en route to his semifinal victory over Leverett's Pete Restivo in the unlimited class. In the process of whizzing around the ring at mach two in the first round, a charging Ferullo sampled the ring ropes as an appetizer, chewed on a little leather for the main course, and finished the meal with a mouthful of plaster as he flew headlong into the IAB wall attempting a daring riposte...