Word: runway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also have the prototype of the first U.S. private jet plane. By removing the present gas tank from the fuselage and carrying gas in wing tanks, the T-37 can be easily converted into a four-passenger plane. The plane can take off from a 2,500-ft. runway, fly at a top speed of 400 m.p.h., yet land at the comparatively low speed of 80 m.p.h. When Cessna gets into peak production of the plane, it expects to be turning them out for the Air Force at $100,000 or less, a price not out of line with present...
...back to Seattle, Stevenson was marooned on the mountainside when his car stalled. By the time he had walked back to the lodge again, his right ear was painfully frostbitten. The next morning, at Seattle's Boeing Field, his plane screamed to a stop on the runway as it was bowling toward a takeoff. Back to the hangar rolled the plane, with a defective engine, and Stevenson transferred to another airliner. By that time, said an aide, "the governor was taking odds we'd never make...
Once in the lower atmosphere, the space plane will slow down by circling, and head for some landing field with a very long runway. It will touch at 250 m.p.h., and may use a drag parachute to check its speed on the ground. When the pilot steps out and walks away, he will have passed the longest 20 minutes in the history of manned flight...
...airliners heard: "Springfield, are you reading 476? We have a bad engine fire." That was the last message from Flight 476. Two minutes later (12:22) the stricken airplane, trailing flames and smoke, was seen heading for the Army field at Fort Leonard Wood. Just short of Runway 14 the right wing came off, and the airplane crashed in heavy timber, killing all passengers (27) and crew (three...
...Boston's Logan Airport on day last June, a Lockheed F-94B jet fighter blew apart during takeoff. Flight mechanics were baffled until, in the engine wreckage, they found the charred carcass of a seagull. Sucked into the left air scoop as the fighter rose from the runway, the gull's body broke a fuel line, causing an excess amount of gasoline to spurt into the engine...