Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only possible defense against the Allies' vast fleets of bombers. Hitler, against the advice of his best airmen, ordered the jets used as bombers, not fighters, and also opted to throw Germany's resources into making guided missiles-the put-putting V-1 and the rocket-powered V2. By late 1944 Galland, like his fellow airmen, was perfectly able to see that Germany, without enough defense against the air raids, had had it. Relieved in the dying days of the war, he took command of a last-ditch squadron of hand-picked aces, none ranking lower than colonel...
...smugness was roughly shattered last year by intelligence reports of a Soviet breakthrough: the development of a rocket engine with a thrust of at least 240,000 Ibs., which could be used as part of the power plant for a multi-stage intercontinental missile...
Honest John is a freeflight artillery rocket that can carry atomic warheads some 15 miles. Another is the "Corporal."which can be guided by remote control to targets 100 miles away...
Faster & Faster. Stapp's first sled ride was seven years ago. The sled, a one-rocket job, got up to 90 m.p.h. and coasted to an easy stop. Later rides were not so gentle. More powerful rockets made the new-model sleds start like frightened jackrabbits and pushed them along the rails at the speed of fighter planes. Stapp rode them all. He suffered the acceleration forces as they speeded up and the even greater forces of deceleration as the water brake (long trough of water engaging a scoop on the sled) brought them to a wrenching stop. Faster...
Specks of Blue. When the rocket burned out. the Gs died down to nothing The blackness in Stapp's eyes turned briefly to yellow, and like a fleeting vision he caught a glimpse of the world. It was gone in a blur of salmon-colored light a the water brake took hold and powerful deceleration forces, up to 35 Gs, slammed him against his belts...