Word: sledding
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...Force hopes to solve the problems with a high-speed, ground-borne "airplane": a rocket-propelled sled. Built with the help of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., it roars along a two-mile section of track at Edwards (formerly Muroc) Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. To eliminate jolts, the rails were laid at night so that heat waves would not upset the sighting instruments...
...Force men estimate that five rockets with 11,000 lbs. of thrust each will push the sled at 1,100 m.p.h. Other rockets firing forward bring it to a standstill...
...When the sled has reached the speed the testers want, the escape device in the simulated cockpit ejects a dummy pilot. Movie cameras record what happens to it (see cut), and the testers figure out later whether a live pilot would miss the tail surfaces of a real airplane and live to parachute to earth...
...sulky and physically push the moose until it was once again aimed in the correct direction and high speed travel could proceed. The coming of winter matorially affected neither the animal's speed nor his inability to turn corners, and in the chillier seasons it hauled a small sled instead of a sulky...
Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...