Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise night attack. Getting ashore after a hair-raising trip under Red fire, he "sprinted up the beach as fast as an aging correspondent in blue button-down collar, British slacks and a pair of loose loafers could sprint." Three days later, airlifted off Quemoy by a Nationalist plane that took off under the nose of Communist guns, Bell was in Formosa learning from President Chiang Kai-shek in an exclusive interview that the U.S. Navy would convoy Nationalist supply vessels to Quemoy. Fast as his loafers could carry him, he sprinted aboard Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley...
...Reservation near Immokalee, found a tranquil oldster (74) who still hunts, fishes and farms all day without tiring. Billie was free to talk commerce, it developed, because he got religion 14 years ago and quit practice to become a Baptist minister. Last month Upjohn flew Billie in a private plane to Kalamazoo, there besought him (with a new hearing aid and a little cash) to demonstrate his lore...
...ATOM PLANE ENGINE, proved a success in tests, has been run for 230 hours by General Electric. Engine is started by gasoline, but reactor power then takes over...
Fractured Decibels. Plane builders themselves long ago recognized the noise problem, went to work developing suppressors that would cut the roar and whine of pure jet engines without cutting engine efficiency too much. Last week Boeing announced that it had licked the problem. It said that its suppressor had cut jet noise below the level promised purchasers of the 707, making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation. The trick was done by breaking up the jet stream and funneling it through 21 narrow after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said...
...piston-engine airliner. But it has also thrown a new factor into the dispute; the Authority argued that the results of tests it had made showed that the jet noise contained a high-pitched whine that made it much more objectionable to listeners than a piston-engine plane roar of a much higher decibel reading. But the Authority's own aviation-development specialist, Herbert O. Fisher, apparently disagreed. He joined with outside technicians in a report calling the suppressor a success, likely to make the 707 appreciably less objectionable to listeners than large piston planes...