Word: mockups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September of 1957, Ed Cole casually asked Red Curtice out to take a look at something new at the G.M. Technical Center. With a knowing wink, Cole lifted the canvas protecting the clay mockup. Red Curtice stood back, his blue eyes narrowing. Then he peppered Cole for two hours with questions. There were many obvious problems...
...named Frederick Lorenzen, who was dissatisfied with wooden boats ("I don't like them. They leak"). Many small boats have been built of fiber glass, but few of ocean-racing size. At the Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport-to-Bermuda race, finished fifth, sixth and seventh in a huge field of 110 boats...
...Vanguard, which is still only a set of plans on the drawing board plus a wooden mockup, is a big, versatile, medium-range (up to 3,000 miles) airliner that will cruise at 420 m.p.h. Designed with a two-level, "double-bubble" fuselage, the Vanguard will be able to carry two tons of freight and mail on the lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely...
...spent almost three months in Egypt and the Holy Land, shooting his key scenes "in the very places where"-so the picture's publicity puts it-the episodes of Exodus transpired. In the flats back of Cairo, DeMille built the biggest movie set in history, a 60-acre mockup of the traditional "treasure city" of Per-Rameses that probably constituted the biggest piece of construction work undertaken in Egypt since the Suez Canal. For one scene alone, the beginnings of the Exodus, he used more than 20,000 extras -at least twice as many people, according to the generally...
...scraps were fitted onto a mockup, the evidence showed that the explosion had occurred in the rear cargo pit, in an area where there were no fuel lines or electric wires that might have caused an accidental explosion. The investigators concluded that the plane had been deliberately blown up by someone who had put a time bomb in the passengers' luggage. If so, it would be the first known case of successful sabotage in the history of U.S. commercial aviation...