Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Navy published the first pictures of the delta-wing seaplane that it has been billing as a revolutionary advance in water-air warfare (TIME, Nov. 24). Built by Convair, the XF2Y-1 Sea Dart taxis, takes off and lands on a hydro-ski (submerged in the picture) that keeps its fuselage well above the surface when it is moving rapidly. As soon as the plane is in the air, the hydro-ski retracts into its belly, giving it the low-drag flight of a land-based jet. Chief advantages of the ski-jet: it is not burdened...
...hopeful Crimson ski team will see its first action of the season during Christmas vacation, an intercollegiate four-event meet at Lyndonville, Vt., on January...
...loss of Hart and Jim Lawson from the cross-country event will probably hurt the team the most. Last year's snow-harriers showed the best in any of the ski team's events since the war, when they finished fourth at the Dartmouth Carnival, and Wise feels its going to be hard recruiting two skiers to fill their places...
...Skiing has been an official minor sport for over five years, but up to now it seems that nobody recognized it as such. But this year the H.A.A. has substantially increased the team's budget, and the extra money is going to pay for a lot of much needed equipment, help finance long ski weekends, and encourage more people to try out for the team...
Coach Graham Taylor's squad is looking forward anxiously to the "great things" expected from Norwegian exchange students Johan Andresen, who under the College's athletic rules was not permitted to ski last year. He's expected to ski in all four events...