Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quincy House and South Orange, N.J., government major, honors candidate and all that returned to Cambridge last week in high spirits. Not even the sad discovery that you can't drive nails into concrete walls was able to dampen his exuberance. Not even getting stuck in that high-speed, low-efficiency elevator dismayed him very much. Delwood was happy, eager, just raring...
After three minutes of power, the X-15's fuel burned out. The plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
Turn in Space. The Russians issued no explanation of how this was done. Easiest way is to turn the final-stage rocket in a desired direction by gyros or gas jets and then burn additional fuel to speed it up, slow it down or move it sideways. The necessary orders can be given by radio from the ground or by the rocket's own inertial guidance system. If the orders came from the ground, the problem was to get an accurate track of the rocket's course. The cloud of glowing sodium that the rocket released may have...
British radio astronomers do not think this deception was possible. With the giant Jodrell Bank radio telescope, they measured Lunik II's slowly decreasing speed as it climbed through the earth's gravitational field. Then they watched it speed up about 50% as the moon's modest gravity took control. Mathematical analysis showed that Lunik II followed the proper curve to crash near the center of the lunar disk...
...spending is for Chrysler's new economy car, the Valiant, heaviest (about 2,700 lbs.) and most powerful (100 h.p.) of the Big Three's compact cars. Styled with a sports-car slope, the Valiant seats six, gets 30 miles per gallon, has a top speed of 100 m.p.h. Among its features: a new six-cylinder engine mounted at a 30° angle, instead of straight, to give the car a lower center of gravity, and an alternator* instead of a direct-current generator. Chief advantages over a DC generator: more electrical energy at idling and low speeds...