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...Mach One. "You pick out someone to fight and you try to get on his tail. Everyone's flying all around you and you're a bit afraid of a collision. You're only human and you're worried. Yet the speed is so great that you'd have a hard time trying to ram someone if you wanted...
...feel pretty good when you're on someone's tail and shooting at him. You don't know there are other planes in the sky. The speeds are terrific-we actually dogfight at Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The controls are hard to move and you have to use both hands on them...
...shock wave rushes out like a solid steel wall. At some points it is joined by a reflected wave. The two combine to apply redoubled pressure (called the "Mach front"). Behind the shock wave comes a great wind, at a speed of 800 m.p.h. A mile from "ground zero" (the point directly under the burst), the speed of the wind drops to 200 m.p.h.; 1½ miles away, to 100 m.p.h. Behind the wind comes a partial vacuum, which acts like another wind coming from the opposite direction. Three miles away, the shock wave, wind and vacuum begin to peter...
...model shown was designed to work best at Mach 3 (about 2,000 m.p.h.). The air "ramming" in at the open front is slowed down and compressed in the ring-shaped space between the outer shell and the pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel...
...spare time Waugh made souvenir boxes of sea shells, a whalebone chandelier, a papier-maché castle for his children-and abstract paintings. He never exhibited the abstractions, for fear of shocking his devoted customers...