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...airplanes were made of sticks and cloth and wire. To establish an official speed record, a plane must stay below 75 meters (246 ft.) over the measured course, and it cannot rise above 1,312 ft. on the turns beyond. Such low-level flying is hampering and hazardous for modern, high-speed jet planes...
Mach .81. Modern test pilots and designers do not measure a fast plane's speed in miles per hour, but in "Mach numbers." Mach 1 is the speed of sound in the air through which the plane is passing. In the warm air near the ground it is about 765 m.p.h., but it falls (to about 650 m.p.h. at 40,000 ft.) in the cold air of high altitudes. Well below these speeds, the "sonic barrier" makes itself felt, jamming an airplane's controls, destroying the lift of its wings. The P-80R got up to Mach...
...state. The King, as titular head of the Church, still nominally appoints bishops and deans; Parliament must pass on the smallest change in the Book of Common Prayer; ecclesiastical court cases may be appealed to civil courts. Such a state of affairs was once natural enough. But many a modern Englishman now asks: is it suitable in a modern socialist state...
When the Moslems make world news-(see FOREIGN NEWS)-it is usually more political than religious. But to most of the 221,000,000 Moslems between Dakar and Borneo, last week was no different from any other. From Cairo, a TIME correspondent described how a modern Moslem observes one of the world's most exacting religious rituals...
...Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...