Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burdened B-52 climbed to 38,000 ft., which is the altitude where the X-15 will be launched in free flight. In the dense lower air the off-center weight called for trim adjustments, but at the critical launch height and speed Mach 0.8, there was no trouble at all. After 70 minutes B-52 Pilot Charles Bock gently eased the coupled pair back down to a landing...
...primarily for underwater work. Conventional diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time on the surface, are long and slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial bow and deck, is not as round as she should be for real underwater speed...
...declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that seemed contrary to everything that this elegant, liberal, and somewhat indecisive civil servant had ever stood for. He had helped speed...
Soon after the last of its light was lost among the stars, instruments and computers indicated that the flight would be a success. Top speed achieved (24,700 m.p.h.) was slightly less than planned (24,985 m.p.h.), but it was still 200 m.p.h. more than was needed to escape from the earth. All instruments were working perfectly...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Peter Vajk, 16, is news editor of the Princeton (N.J.) high school paper, and has a lead role in a school play. He won $3,000 with a paper theorizing that fallout will speed up human evolution...