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...skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft to carry man out to the edge of space...
...hurtled toward the dry bed of Rogers Lake, a natural twelve-mile-long runway. Air Force and North American officials crowded anxiously around loudspeakers relaying Crossfield's radio messages. At 14,000 ft., Scott Crossfield, a World War II Navy pilot and a test pilot for a decade, remarked laconically: "I wish I could do a roll on my way in." (Later he explained that he had restrained himself because "if I'd goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X-15's ventral tailfin...
...will be the first European airline to fly to Arbil, with three Vienna flights a week scheduled to start sometime this year. That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its 4.8-km runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380 - or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway. Indeed...
Christopher M. Gordon, Harvard’s top Allston official, likes “building stuff.”First, it was blocks. Then, it was runways and terminals at Boston’s Logan Airport. Now, he’s been charged with the task of bringing Harvard’s dream campus into being. Gordon, 43, who reports directly to University President Lawrence H. Summers, was hired last September to head up the Allston Development Group, a new body in the administration that will push the designs of the new campus off paper and into the ground. After...
April 3, 2006.The worst day of the year.Not because I was stuck on a crowded flight back to school. Not even because I landed on a rain-soaked, dreary runway at Logan Airport just hours after leaving 80-degree weather.No, the first Monday in April is the worst day of the year, every year. It’s NCAA Championship Monday, when all interest I have in sporting events gets packed away with the pre-made championship T-shirts of the unfortunate loser.As an almost lifelong resident of Oklahoma, I’ve never been attached to professional sports. Franchises...