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...bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys and pâpier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title Flame of Calcutta. Naturally...
...Mach 1.5. American designers, say their British colleagues, have neglected delta-wings because they are necessarily preoccupied with long range. To get range, they designed planes with long, slender wings and high wing-loading. These tend to be fine for range, but not so good for takeoff, climb, ceiling and maneuverability. Many British designers believe that they are also inferior to delta-wings for speeds up to Mach 1.5 (1½ times the speed of sound...
...Geoffrey de Havilland may have passed Mach i in 1946, but his plane went to pieces and he was killed (TIME, Oct. 7, 1946). The first man to break through the sonic wall in level flight: the U.S. Air Force's Captain "Chuck" Yeager, on Oct. 14, 1947, in his rocket-powered Xi. *A wing whose thickness is small compared with its breadth from leading edge to trailing edge is "thin" aerodynamically, though its actual thickness may be large...
...University--and Conant in particular--suffered an embarrassing time in the press, mach of which was deserved or inevitable. The University had not made its principles clear, and it had ignored the wishes of undergraduates in making its decisions. But today Conant can look back at the Walsh-Sweezey incident and reflect "that in the end its effect was a healthful one for out present tenure system works very smoothly...
...turns the nose upward for a steep climb. This keeps the speed below Mach 1, and takes him up toward the thin upper atmosphere where really high speed is possible. Bill finally reaches a point where the air is so thin that it can no longer support the Skyrocket below the speed of sound. Then he "bends over," flies at a flatter climb, and lets the speed build...