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...Recruit solid-propellant rocket motors, made by Thiokol Chemical Corp. at Elkton, Md., each with 40,000 lbs. of thrust. Stage Two is a single Recruit. Stage Three is four clustered Arrow II rockets (thrust: 250 lbs. each). The last stage is a single Arrow II which pushes the payload-a tube containing 3.5 lbs. of instruments-to final speed. The whole assembly looks like a graceless bundle of pipes, weighs...
...small, experimental aircraft, and Bell has not told how much weight of airframe, payload and fuel its thrust-diverters can lift. Neither has Ryan given figures for its X-13. The chances are that each of the rival VTOLS has advantages. The X-13 needs launching equipment, while the X-14 does not. On the other hand, the X-13 is pushed into the air by the undiminished thrust of its jet engine. The thrust-diverter of the X-14 probably wastes thrust, reducing the weight that the X-14 can carry...
...system. And although he has a few scientists in his corner, Stevenson is boldly down-facing the experts when he questions the "sense" of further hydrogen development. Even now, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in a desperate race for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a hydrogen payload. For the U.S. to test the missile package without continuing work on its thermonuclear warhead would give the Soviets a disastrous advantage...
Ostensibly, the Terrapin is intended for research only, but both of its propulsive units are of military design. Its payload has not been released, and this suggests strongly that it may be able to carry a lightweight nuclear warhead. Suitably modified for military purposes, the Terrapin may not be very different from the small, atom-armed rocket that the Army calls Little John. A modest increase in size would give it atomic capability...
...Then, in 1949, Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...