Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unspoken Speech. Khrushchev's big jet swept into Los Angeles International Airport 5 hr. 27 min. later, sat down with a bounce. He padded down the bright aluminum ramp, his light-colored suit flapping, looked detached and almost dubious about leaving the plane. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson stepped forward, handed out what was perhaps the briefest official greeting a U.S. city has ever given a visiting chief of state. Said Poulson: "We welcome you to Los Angeles, City of the Angels, the city where the impossible always happens." Khrushchev, who had the text of an arrival speech...
...never finished high school, got the services to squeeze out hundreds of millions of dollars a year in savings. Example: after his "road agents" (field investigators) found that airplane maintenance was improving, he told the Air Force to quit stocking 2.5 airplanes in spare parts for every operational plane, pared the figure...
...nest under the bomber's right wing, the long, black, needle-nosed X-15 dropped free at 38,000 ft. In its instrument-crammed cockpit at that instant, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield started his rocket engines and flashed ahead on the first powered flight of the experimental plane that is designed to take man to the edge of space...
After three minutes of power, the X-15's fuel burned out. The plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
...Line. A decade ago, Britain had 45 first-class plane-and enginemakers. Now there are 30. Companies are dropping out because the industry's capacity is far higher than the demand for planes. There are so few orders that major planemakers are building for stock-putting together planes and praying that they will be sold one day. A buyer can get delivery of a turboprop Viscount or Britannia in two to three months, v. twelve months for a U.S. Lockheed Electra...