Word: refueling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American men and materiel into the area...
...second to Parnelli Jones), and Designer Colin Chapman was determined not to let this happen again. Carefully calculating Clark's rate of fuel consumption (3 mi. per gal. of alcohol), he scheduled a stop every 162 mi. He redesigned the Lotus' gas tank to speed up the refueling process. Finally, he hired a crew of ringers to handle the hoses: the Wood Brothers (actually four brothers and two friends), who are famed around the U.S. stock-car circuit for their ability to refuel a car and change a set of tires...
...Government claims it will be faster (about Mach 2.5, or 1,650 m.p.h.) than any operational plane. It will fly twice the distance and carry twice the payload of the best current U.S. fighter. By cruising at moderate speed with wings extended, it will have "transoceanic range without refueling"; if permitted to refuel, it can fly to any part of the earth in one day. It can land much more slowly than other jet fighters, which will permit it to operate from small, poorly surfaced fields. Its Navy version, the F-111 B, which is being built by Grumman, should...
...m.p.h.-breaking the old track record by more than 2 m.p.h. Then the Brab-ham's engine began to miss. Gurney screeched into the pits. "Gas!" he yelled-and imagine his surprise. There was no gas: fuel-company mathematicians had concluded that nobody would need to refuel. Frantically, Gurney wheeled his sputtering Brabham back onto the track. On the last lap, he ran completely...
...land has been bought for nightspots, motels, office buildings, a shopping center, private homes, a draught-and-rafters English pub. The biggest moneymaker so far is a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal where ten ships at a time-more than at any other single station in the hemisphere-can refuel with tax-free...