Word: midair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Nevada test managers finally decided to start the series with what had been scheduled as the second step: the drop of a "baby" atom bomb (equivalent to 5,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT) from an airplane. Since the bomb would explode in midair, it would be less likely to siphon up particles from the ground and therefore would produce a less dangerous fallout. The clouds from nuclear explosions that do not suck up particles from the earth travel long distances (sometimes around the world) and descend in such minute particles that they...
...crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that it will go ahead with construction of the Comet II and III. They will have such improvements as thicker skins, oval instead of rectangular windows, to correct the faulty design that caused the Comet I to explode in midair. De Havilland set no delivery dates, but the first plane will probably not be ready before...
Strater had with him a modest little book which he allowed me to thumb through. The many photographs looked like shots of daring jitterbug steps, with one partner suspended in midair. Beneath each picture was a short paragraph of English prose and a diagram resembling an Arthur Murray dance step. I could not understand the corresponding Japanese...
...plunged over for the Lions' only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed when Renfro made a miraculous fingertip catch of a Graham pitch in the end zone...
...finally been solved by British scientists, though Planemaker De Havilland will not announce the findings until the inquiry is formally completed next month. Rumored cause: the intense pressures of high-speed, high-altitude flight caused the metal in the fuselage to "fatigue" and the planes split open in midair, killing...