Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with 30 years' experience, conned the flattop through, nonstop. "I'm trying to give my customers the best,'' says the authority's able, open-shirted Managing Director Mahmoud Younis, 46, a fellow soldier of Nasser's with good engineering experience. "I realize...
With its soft. length and 22-ft. wingspan, the X-15 looks more like a missile than an airplane. A sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen...
Disposing, for the moment, of the theory that Harvard can change the NSA by getting out of it, the controversy boils down to a debate over whether the NSA can offer the College anything of value. If participation in inter-college discussions on pilot programs for high-school teaching, on the problem and solution of racial integration, and on the problem of Federal aid to education is valuable, then NSA has something to offer...
...Sidewinder has disadvantages too, like all weapons. An enemy airplane cannot be attacked from the front; its hot parts must be in sight, and they are visible only from favorable angles. The attacking pilot must keep track of the sun's position. If his Sidewinder sees the sun, it may vainly attack...
Ampex, Revere, Bell Sound Systems, Wollensak, Webcor are selling stereo tape players. Stereo record players (price: $125 to $2,500) are being pushed by Pilot, Columbia, Zenith, RCA Victor, Emerson and others. Into the market for stereo records have come Columbia, RCA, Angel, London, Audio-Fidelity...