Word: slipperyness
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Guided by Ground Controlled Approach (G.C.A.), the pilot headed in. In the observer's compartment, the scopehead had the landing strip firmly fixed on his radarscope, and could have directed the landing without help from G.C.A. if required. But the scopehead kept still, let G.C.A. do the talking. G.C.A...
* This week Cramer had a chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2...
Rangers found them in the morning, but it was too late. Lindbergh helped lash the body on the rescuers' toboggan and led the way back down the mountain. Newsmen and photographers were waiting, but he ignored them as he pulled his friend's body toward the coroner'...
In his Carmel, N.Y. studio one winter morning in 1939, a harried artist packed a portrait into his station wagon and headed for Manhattan. As the car slithered down the slippery lane, one of the doors jounced open and snagged a roadside pine. The door was left behind dangling on...
The Super-Sabre's performance has been given only in round numbers. Its speed: "supersonic"; its operating radius: 560 nautical miles; its service ceiling: 50,000 ft. Besides fighting other fighters, it. can serve as a fighter-bomber. Structurally, the F-100 makes liberal use of titanium. It has...