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Climbing into the pilot's seat, the King took off toward the dark clouds hanging low over the naked hills of the Holy Land to the west, minutes later swooped down to a neat landing in Jerusalem. There he dashed off to confer for two hours with young (34), mustachioed Lieut. Colonel Abu Nawar, his favorite military adviser of the moment, then stopped off briefly at a Legion camp to tell clustering legionnaires: "Work together, observe discipline, and we shall have happiness, Allah willing...
Throttled Rocket. Most rocket motors are all-or-nothing performers. They give good performance at one thrust level only. The Bell X-1 (first airplane to pass the speed of sound) was pushed by a cluster of four small rockets, and it gained a measure of control because the pilot could shut some of them off. The Bell X-2 (already under secret test) has a two-rocket Curtiss-Wright power plant, can vary its thrust, by methods undisclosed, over a considerable range...
Supersonic Parachute. To rescue pilots from a supersonic bailout, Radioplane Co., a Northrop subsidiary, has devised a special parachute called the Skysail, packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like...
When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
...death of the officer and the seven other passengers on board. Next day, when the Air Marshall makes his flight, the unlikely happens as the dream slowly starts to come true. Everything checks out as predicted: the plane runs into a snowstorm, the radio breaks down, and the pilot gets lost somewhere over the coast of Japan...