Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the Rex Harrison story: in the words of Pogo's turtle Churchy, "Oh, how could...
...favorite dream of airplane designers is a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) that will leap into the air like a helicopter, fly as fast as a jet interceptor, and land vertically. Helicopters cannot be upgraded to do this job: they are inherently too slow. The Navy's "Pogo" (Convair XFY-I) takes off and lands vertically, but it has propellers and therefore can never fly as fast as a jet. Many other types have been tried (movable wings, swiveled engines, folding rotors), but none of them show promise of matching the designers' dream...
...depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near the ground, nose upward, and then slowly move under an overhead framework, from which it will suspend itself like a bat landing on a roof of a cave...
There are no apparent plans for a riot tonight, however, when the creators of Pogo and Li'l Abner discuss "Humor and its Role in International Relations." Carroll F. Miles, Dean of Foreign Students and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, will moderate the program...
...Pogo" movement began with a riot last week at the University of Pennsylvania, where several students favoring the possum from Okefenokee were arrested...