Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pacesetter of the "soaring" design was the late great Eero Saarinen's TWA building at New York's Idlewild. Washington also went soaring with Saarinen in its new Dulles International Airport. Latest to soar is the most air-served city for its size in the U.S. No fewer than seven air lines have been pumping people in and out of Las Vegas through one of the shabbiest airports in the land. But last week's crop of gamblers, conventioneers, vacationers and divorcers found themselves arriving and departing through a $4,500,000 air, terminal that looked...
...week's end McNamara flew to the Boeing plant in Seattle. Greeted by Boeing President William M. Allen, he looked over the Air Force's space-glider project, Dyna-Soar, amid rumors that it was having technical difficulties and might be scrapped. McNamara also inspected the Gemini two-man space project of NASA in Houston, which seems to overlap Dyna-Soar in some respects. But he apparently had had enough fusses for one week. Pentagon officials said that McNamara will make no final decision on whether to kill Dyna-Soar or merge the two projects-either of which...
...standing waves'' of fast-rising air that are found on the lee side of mountain ranges, sailplanes can soar even higher: up to 45,000 ft. Sailplanes are generally safer than powered planes-there is no risk of fire, and landing speeds are lower-but soaring is no sport for the fainthearted. In full view of 1,000 onlookers at Junin, veteran Dutch Pilot Arie Breunissen dived into a ther mal too quickly and watched in horror as the left wing of his fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). U.S. aircraft surveyed from the early experimental jet models of 1942 to the coming Dyna-Soar...
Another factor was that Loser Boeing could not poor-mouth very effectively. With its plum contracts involving the Minuteman missile, the Saturn booster and the modernization of older B-52s. Boeing has enough work to keep its Wichita plant going. Boeing has also developed the X20 Dyna-Soar, the first fully maneuverable spacecraft. If the Air Force wins its fight for a military role in space. Boeing's Dyna-Soar could supersede the TFX on some yonder tomorrow...