Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles up, where the air is thin and cold, a fearful wind zigzags round the earth at 200 m.p.h. Meteorologists call it the "jet stream." Last week, at Asbury Park, N.J., a convention of the International Air Transport Association considered the jet stream and the effect it will have on the operation of the high-flying airliners of the future...
Meteorologists have known about the jet stream for a long time. Sometimes their sounding balloons get into it and are quickly whisked out of the range of their instruments. Apparently it is caused by an encounter between two air masses of different temperatures. Since the jet stream is narrow for a wind stream (seldom more than 100 mi. wide) and only some 5,000 ft. deep, it is hard to pinpoint exactly on a weather map. Airplanes flying high toward the west in the middle latitudes are apt to head into an uncharted jet stream and find their ground speed...
Today few airliners fly high enough to meet the jet stream, which seldom comes lower than 25,000 ft. But future airliners-especially the jets, which must fly high to save fuel-will have to take account of it. A battle with the jet stream can exhaust their fuel reserves. There is another reason for knowing where a jet stream is likely to be encountered: all fast-moving bodies of air are apt to be associated with turbulence which makes a 500 m.p.h. airplane bounce like a speedboat on a choppy...
...airline men at Asbury Park asked for more information about the roaring jet streams, but chances are that official meteorologists may not tell all they know. A few years ago, meteorology was a blameless business of predicting sunny days for picnics. Now it is deeply tied up with military interests. The first air power that learns to make accurate forecasts of the location, speed and direction of the jet streams will have a powerful ad vantage over its adversaries. A fleet of long-distance bombers riding on a stream could carry their bombs hundreds of miles beyond normal range...
...crew of his special train banded themselves into a "Sad Symphony" of toy ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well, a little, but it was good...