Word: skyrocket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designer and the pilot of the world's fastest airplane, the rocket-pushed Douglas Skyrocket, loosened up a little last week and told a few new facts about how the plane behaves. High above the speed of sound, said Designer Ed Heinemann and Pilot Bill Bridgeman, there is a new peril of the sky: "supersonic...
Little Queen. In reality, supersonic flights proved anything but peaceful. Both the X-1 and the Skyrocket, says Heinemann, met the strange and terrible phenomenon of supersonic...
...rocket flight in the Skyrocket, says Pilot Bridgeman, starts out peacefully enough. When the plane is dropped from its mother B-29 at 35,000 ft., there is a gentle sensation like going down in an elevator. When Bill "kicks on" his rocket motors, he feels a great push of acceleration but no sensation of speed. Below the speed of sound, the Skyrocket "flies like a little queen," responds sensitively to his lightest touch...
...with making one of the most important appointments of his career. The Federal Power Commission is without a chairman. If Truman selects a man sympathetic to the oil and natural gas industries, as was Mon C. Wallgren, the former chairman, the price of natural gas for home use may skyrocket. The FPC passed a ruling during Wallgren's chairmanship that stated that the FPC, under the Natural Gas Act of 1938, could have no jurisdiction over the Phillips Petroleum Co. In so doing, Wallgren turned over control of the FPC to the industries it is supposed to regulate--industries which...
Only a month ago, Douglas Aircraft's tiny, rocket-powered Navy Skyrocket broke all altitude records by hurtling higher than 77,000 ft. at a speed greater than 1,000 m.p.h. (TIME, Sept. 10). But things never stand still in an aircraft factory. Next week Donald Douglas will trundle out a spectacular successor to the spectacular Skyrocket...