Word: norair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Norair Sisakyan, 59, biochemist and head of medical studies in the Soviet space program, who evaluated the pioneering tests performed on Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka during 1960's Sputnik V flight, urged that the biological aspects of manned space flights "be attacked with vigor," and since then had a major hand in every flight involving living creatures, from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to last month's launching of two dogs in still-orbiting Cosmos 110; of undisclosed causes; reportedly in Tyuratam, U.S.S.R...
...contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by Northrop's Norair division and turned over to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a series of test flights. M2-F2 is a wingless glider, called the Manned Lifting Body Research Vehicle, designed to be used eventually to ferry astronauts back from space to a dry landing rather than an ocean dunking...
...bomber. It is a familiar twin-jet Douglas B66 fitted out with oversize, swept-back wings. But a close look shows a more significant change. There are hundreds of paper-thin slots slicing through the wings' metal skin. And those slots, if the calculations of Northrop's Norair Division scientists prove correct, may well revolutionize the aircraft industry...
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