Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MacCready had already been named Engineer of the Century by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers when, in 1981, he unveiled another of his pioneering vehicles. Carrying a single pilot, the Solar Challenger took off, climbed to 11,000 ft. and flew 163 miles from France to an R.A.F. base in England, its electric motor powered solely by the 16,128 solar cells mounted on its wings...
...list of MacCready's brainchildren goes on and on: the General Motors Sunraycer, a solar-powered electric car that in 1987 won a 1,867-mile race across Australia against 23 competitors, averaging 41 m.p.h. and beating the second-place finisher by two days; the Pointer, a 9 lb., battery-powered, TV- equipped observation aircraft that can be launched by hand, remain aloft for 75 minutes, transmitting back to the ground whatever it sees, and then make a soft landing; the General Motors Impact, a sleek, battery-powered electric car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h...
...Gossamer Condor now hangs in a permanent spot next to the Wright brothers' first airplane at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, where the Solar Challenger and the pterodactyl have been displayed. The Smithsonian has also acquired the Gossamer Albatross and the Sunraycer...
...kind of control, say many experts, that has hit the defense bar in the solar plexus and left many in the profession reeling. In the past year the threat of forfeiture actions by the Government has forced many defense lawyers to diversify their practice and has even caused a few to bail out of big drug litigation. More important, it has plunged many attorneys into a sea of paper work to justify the source of their pay, pressuring some to avoid representing certain suspects and others to plea-bargain away their clients' cases...
Meeting them is a humbling experience. Mike Chou, 20, spoke little English when his family arrived in the U.S. from Taiwan in 1983. A Caltech physics major with a 4.1 grade-point average, he has already done pioneering research on solar flares. John Unger II, 21, a mechanical/ biomedical-engineering major at West Virginia University, spent the summer of 1989 in Hong Kong, helping Vietnamese refugees emigrate to the U.S. In September he leaves for India, where he will assist Mother Teresa. He plans to become a doctor and work in the Third World. Says he: "The best part about...