Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black overcoat with brown fur collar separated himself from the group at the stove, and paced slowly back & forth across the width of the hut. He talked readily. He was General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed his pacing...
Also down to Havana, but only for a visit, went beauteous Rita Hayworth. Her friend, the Aly Khan, happened to come along in the same plane from Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled...
...Fast planes of the future will probably look like the Navy's new jet fighter, the Chance Vought XF7U-1, which completed its initial flight tests last week. The new fighter has short, broad wings "swept back" at an angle of 45° or better. There is no tail; two stabilizers with rudders are attached to the trailing edges of the wings. Two Westinghouse turbojet engines drive the plane at better than 600 m.p.h...
...XF7U-1's design looks radical, but it has long been foreshadowed by the results of wind-tunnel research. Swept-back wings have two advantages. The air passing over them diagonally (parallel to the plane's motion) acts as if it were passing directly across the wing at right angles to its leading edge. This "short cut" slows the air-stream's apparent speed, and reduces the shockwave difficulties associated with Mach 1 (the speed of sound, 770 m.p.h...
...When a plane is flying at Mach 1 or above, shock waves flare back in a "V" from its nose and wing roots like water waves from the bow of a ship. The swept-back wings keep inside the V, and avoid a tangle with the shock wave...