Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman captain Ed Martin suffered his first defeat of the season, as he finished 37th out of the field of 220 freshman runners...
...experimental XP6M-I Seamaster, a giant multi-jet, $6.5 million seaplane proudly described by Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke as the "fastest low-altitude attack aircraft in existence today." Fifty-two minutes before, trailed by an escort plane, the Seamaster had taken off from the Glenn L. Martin plant at Middle River, Md., on a routine test flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with its 100-ft. swept-back wings, its slender 134-ft. hull and its four Allison J-71 jet engines, the seagoing bomber...
...world, there be supplied by submarine, make its A-bomb runs and then disappear again to sea, where its chances of being spotted would be minimized. The advantages over land-and-carrier-based aircraft were so obvious that both the Air Force and the Army have been examining the Martin prototypes with interest...
...basic is the Seamaster to Navy planning that soon after the crash of the first model it awarded the Martin Co. a $102 million contract to build 24 more. Last week the Navy's initial reaction to the second crash was to go ahead with the order unless the survivors testify there is something radically wrong with the design. At week's end Navy and Martin engineers were still picking up pieces and trying to find out what had gone wrong...
...blind to "see" by sound or touch, but none has come into widespread use. They are generally too complicated, heavy, expensive or conspicuous. Dunn Engineering Associates, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, is demonstrating a small, simple, inconspicuous device that may have more practical appeal. Its designer, the late Dr. Clifford Martin Witcher of M.I.T., was blind himself...