Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the history of the aircraft carrier, the long-range bomber, the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear-powered submarine-all of which met service opposition before acceptance-the history of the missile has little record of military unwillingness to accept it as the weapon that must be developed at top speed. Another point is that the armed forces are not phasing in the missiles prematurely. "It is just as dangerous to have a weapon too early," said one SAC officer, "as it is to have it too late...
...sleepy town. They have learned to tell a Maserati from a Ferrari; they know a Mercedes-Benz when they see one. But Goldich's death was Sebring's first Grand Prix fatality. Now, at last, the spectators knew the danger and fear that ride with the high-speed racers...
More than Speed. On the track the other drivers settled stoically to their work. Steadily, the high, whining scream of a big (4.5 liters) bright red Maserati moved out in front of the pack. Handled by World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio and France's Jean Behra, a pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
...estimated 24,500 engines 'built in the U.S. last year, more than half were for civilian aircraft, most of them small business or personal planes. Enginemaker Lycoming, with half a dozen small piston engines already in production, is busy developing a light turboprop engine for greater speed and altitude. Continental has moved into baby jets, looks forward to a big market for its 920-lb.-thrust jet as the power plant for Cessna's T-37 Air Force jet trainer and will be ready when the potentially big civilian-small-jet market opens...
...Which set a new transcontinental record for passenger planes last week by whistling 2,650 miles from Seattle to Baltimore in 3 hr. 48 min. for an average speed of 612 m.p.h...