Word: salton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft manufacturers recaptured the world's speed record when a Douglas F4D jet Skyray averaged 753.4 m.p.h. over California's Salton Sea last week, cracking an eight-day-old record of 737.3 m.p.h., set by a British pilot in a Vickers Supermarine Swift...
Duke did not carry a full military load, as Barns did in his Sabre, but on the other hand he had the disadvantage of Hying in colder air. The temperature over the Channel was only 72° F., while Barns flew over the hot desert near Salton Sea, Calif, in air at 104° F. Since the speed of sound is lower in cooler air, Duke approached more closely the resistance point that waits just below Mach...
...last week: i.e., established a new official speed record of 715.7 m.p.h.* The previous official record, also held by a Sabre jet, was 699.9 m.p.h. To turn the trick, Lieut. Colonel William Barnes, 32, flew his Sabre jet at the most favorable spot: the hot desert that surrounds the Salton Sea in Southern California. A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e., 91% of the speed of sound. Above this speed, it runs into a sharp increase of air resistance that is called "compressibility drag rise." Since sound moves faster at high temperature, the best place...
...Salton Sea has another advantage: it is 236 ft. below sea level. Its air is denser, which slows an airplane a little, but this disadvantage is more than made up for by the increased thrust that a jet engine develops in denser...
...sickening to read the list of Republicans who voted to table the motion and keep civil rights legislation a physical impossibility. Salton-stall, Aiken, Bush and Purtell of Connecticut, Smith of Maine, and Smith of New Jersey are the most shocking...