Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a single-engine airplane loses its power, the pilot has always had a problem. Unless he bails out and abandons his air, he must search for an emergency anding place. This is a perilous business, but until the development of modern jet planes, the pilot at least retained control...
...pilot of a jet plane lacks this advantage. Jets move so fast that their controls are too stiff to be moved entirely by hand power. Instead they are "boosted" by strong-armed hydraulic devices that get their energy from the engine. When the engine stops and there is no auxiliary power, the pilot is in a tough spot...
...blowing through it spins a turbine at 6,000 r.p.m., and the power developed (25 h.p.) provides electrical current for the airplane's radio. It also keeps pressure in the hydraulic system that works the controls and landing gear. With the little turbine spinning outside the fuselage the pilot can call for help and try an emergency landing as if he were in an old-style airplane with hand-worked controls...
Twas in the good year 1717 when that evil pirate, Captain Bellame sailed north from the West Indies to pass the winter in the more comfortable shipping lanes off Newfoundland. Near Martha's Vineyard he impressed a Yankee fisherman to pilot his ship past Long Island. The new skipper, apparently unhappy, ran the ships aground on Norsett Barr during a storm...
Fast & Cheap. The Edgelea school is a new thing in schools: a prefabricated job built to rival the conventional school building. It was put up as a pilot model by National Homes Corp., the nation's largest builder of prefabricated homes, in only 21 working days after its foundation was poured. Cost per classroom: $18,500. Conventional school buildings take from twelve to 18 months to construct, cost an average of $37,000 a classroom...