Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effects of moderate Gs developed by a turning airplane have been studied in whirling "human centrifuges," but the brief, intense forces of sudden starting or stopping cannot be simulated in this way. The Air Force uses, instead, a rocket-propelled sled that slides along steel rails at Edwards Air Force Base. A human guinea pig rides on the sled. When it is shot down the rails, or stopped by powerful brakes, almost any number of Gs can be brought to bear on the man's body. Last week Colonel Donald D. Flickinger of the Air Research and Development Command...
Into a Brick Wall. In a stunting airplane, where the G-forces last for several seconds, a sitting pilot can take about ten Gs, when he is dressed in a special suit to keep the blood from being drained from his brain. A man on the Air Force sled can take more for shorter periods. How much he can take depends on his position and how his body is supported...
When the passenger (not dressed in special clothing) is lying on the sled-head foremost-he can take only seven Gs for Moth of a second without being damaged. If he is lying feet foremost, he can stand as much as 32 Gs because the feet can take more impact than the head. When his body is at right angles to the motion of the sled, he can survive even more...
Edward E. Goodale, Arctic explorer who was a sled dog driver for Admiral Byrd, and who went within 300 miles of the South Polye. Hamilton Heard, treasurer of Northeastern Airlines. Ralph W. Hemminger, vice-President of the Bankers Trust of New York. Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Harvard professor of Law and a Civil Liberties leader. Robert I. Hunneman, prominent Boston lawyer and a trustee of Radcliffe...
...lieutenant of the French Fourth Hussars had decided to stage an ice carnival for his pert blonde mistress Mimi. When the Moselle froze solid one night in 1879, he had the snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze, and the guests skated...