Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engine Design. Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail...
Bastogne's ordeal was not entirely over. That night the Germans cut the narrow shaft Colonel Abrams' men had carved, and Bastogne got more shells from the other sides. But the narrow path was cleared next day and General Patton's tanks lanced on into the German bulge while Bastogne's wounded & weary went out to safety in a convoy of ambulances and trucks...
When the campaign began, the polls showed Dewey trailing far behind. At Philadelphia, in his first speech, he made some boggles. But his voice was good-so good that gagsters referred to him as "Lowell Thomas E. Dewey," a shaft aimed at the coaching received from Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas, a Pawling neighbor...
Part dragon, part turtle, and surmounted by a 13 foot shaft, the Chinese dragon monument causes hundreds of passers-by to stop and blink in amazement every day as they approach Widener Library from the west side of the Yard...
...tail, for steering and to counteract the twisting effect given the ship by the top rotor. Hiller decided that the tail rotor was all wrong: it added unnecessary weight, wasted power, set up turbulence around the ship. His solution: two rotors on top, mounted on the same shaft but rotating in opposite directions...