Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vertical current rammed the ship down. . . . Suddenly speeded engines pulled her tail lower. ... A green helmsman at the elevator controls let her nose rise too high, causing a stall. . . . Jammed elevators. . . . Damaged stabilizer. . . . Broken gas cells...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin officials and Navy inspectors call the charges absurd. As a final gesture, the Committee set put to take a ride in the Akron. While the ship was being walked out of the dock before the Congressmen's eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling her for weeks. Nevertheless, the Committee gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion...
...water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail hit a few moments later, he said it sounded as if someone had "sat on a penny box of matches...
...Besides the pieces which appeared to explode into the tail, others exploded from the main mass and dropped to the ground. So it was impossible to tell whether the meteor gradually disintegrated or struck the ground...
...noticed that an extremely bright, fiery thread extended backward from the main mass before it spread out into the gaseous brilliantly shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between...