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...rated thrust, and White thrilled to its surge. Then he throttled back to a more prudent 50% and put the X-15 into a 30° climb. When he reached level flight at 75,000 ft., the X-15 spurted ahead. White slipped it sideways and wiggled its rudder to test control-and the strange airplane responded precisely. He shut off the engine after 125 sec. of operation. This was the instant of greatest speed: Mach...
Twin tail cones swept back from the wings to form a goal-post-shaped rudder assembly. Even more unusual were its twin engines, hung fore and aft on its gracefully streamlined cabin pod. one pulling, one pushing. The plane was the Skymaster, Cessna Aircraft Co.'s newest entry in the race for the flying businessman's dollar. For Cessna, world's biggest private-planemaker, the Skymaster is a bold new venture aimed at procuring an even bigger slice than the 47% of the private-plane market the company...
...handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...Dutch minesweeper fought her way to a haven after losing a rudder in the storm off the Dutch north coast...
...less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder all but useless. Says Staudacher: "It was like skidding on ice. When I saw that rocky shore coming, I believed this was the end of my life...