Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auto racing's famed Jimmy Clark died yesterday in a high speed crash at Hockenheim, Germay. Clark was killed instantly when his Lotus-Cosworth Formula II racer flipped off the rain-soaked course and crashed into a tree...
Under the Net. The F-111 is the world's first combat plane with the so-called "variable geometry" wing, which extends for greater lift during takeoff and landing, folds back for less drag at supersonic speeds. Its "terrain radar," which automatically adjusts the plane's altitude to accord with the topography, is supposed to enable the plane to hug the ground while flying at a speed of 900 m.p.h. and thus dash in below the enemy radar net. If the first F-111 did hit a mountain, it was probably due to a malfunction in the terrain...
...Plymouth's Road Runner, a stripped-down version of the Satellite, which, with the addition of the dome-shaped 426-cu.-in. "Hemi" engine,* covers the quarter mile in a blistering 13.5 sec. from a standing start, hits a top speed of 107 m.p.h. "Beep-beep" goes the horn, duplicating the sound made by the cartoon character, as a warning to slowpokes that the Road Runner is on its way. Cost...
...American Motors' AMX, a $3,245 sports coupe on the market for less than a month. A 290-cu.-in. engine is standard, but another $123 rates a 390-cu.-in. replacement. Testing an extra-powered AMX, Land Speed Record Holder Craig Breedlove got the car up to 170 m.p.h...
...area 27 miles inside Dugway's limits. Later that afternoon, 160 gal. of a more stable nerve agent were destroyed by fire in a disposal training exercise about 19 miles inside the proving grounds. Finally, a nerve liquid was sprayed from a jet aircraft traveling at high speed. But the spray had stayed well within Dugway's limits, said the Army experimenters...