Word: refuelling
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...ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes if it has to refuel). Southwest has trimmed the time by such tricks as keeping one engine running, dropping open a door which also serves as a staircase...
Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane...
...native of Argentina and nearby countries, the nutria is a rodent that looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...
More than half of Europe's coal was hauled up from the mine-shafts of the Ruhr before the war, and Germany dominated Europe as a result. The Big Three recognized this when they met at Potsdam in August, 1945 and planned to refuel the European industrial machine with German coal. Heavy industry no longer would threaten Europe under the Potsdam proposals, for Allied nations had first call on Ruhr coal and would receive in addition 1,557 factories in reparations. Germany was to receive food in return for the coal and could maintain a not-too-proud existence...