Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-40 ft. more than the 6-52-has six General Electric J-93 engines (better than 150,000 Ibs. thrust) in its peacocklike tail; they can be simultaneously hot-started for takeoff in less than five minutes. The plane will cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes...
...modern application of the early-day pusher-type plane, in which the engine was placed aft of the pilot...
When Ferdinand (The Great Impostor) Demara blew into Hollywood three weeks ago for his first movie, The Hypnotic Eye, Producer Charles Bloch and Allied Artists' Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch...
Menzel presented a brief talk about the eclipse until the plane broke though into sunlight. When the moon started the fifty-six-second period of totality, the airliner became a scene of controlled confusion. Nearly everyone on the plane hurriedly snapped pictures, since the next eclipse in this area will not come for 300 years...
...Braniff Airways plane virtually disintegrated, turning the sky fiery red and raining bodies and debris on isolated brush country 68 miles southeast of here...