Word: tailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British-French supersonic Concorde 001 took its first trip last week, but the journey was only a matter of a mile at the Sud Aviation plant at Toulouse, France. With front wheels jacked up so that the 38-ft. tail structure could slip through the hangar doors, the graceful goose was towed to a suitable display area where this week some 800 airline officials and members of the press will get a look at the craft. If all goes according to plan, the 191-ft. prototype will take off on its maiden flight...
...Charles de Gaulle, the flight of the Concorde will be a personal victory. As one observer put it: "The Concorde will get into the air if De Gaulle has to grab it by the tail and throw it up himself." However, financially pressed Britons have shown dwindling enthusiasm for the project...
That blindfolded figure you may have seen groping his way around Longfellow Hall yesterday at noon was not pursuing the tail-end of a long-eared equine...
...electrical potential of 50,000 volts generated across the earth's comet-shaped magnetic field by a combination of two complex effects. As the solar wind blows by the earth, compressing the magnetic field into a rounded shell on the daylight side and sweeping it into a long tail on the night side (TIME, April 22, 1966), it produces friction on the outer boundary of the magnetic field. This friction generates a positive electrical charge on the morning side of the boundary, a negative charge on the opposite, or evening, side. The charge is supplemented by a dynamo effect...
...from a waiting truck-trailer and swung it high over the construction site beside the San Antonio River. Ever so delicately, Crane Operator Gene Smith steadied the massive shell against the push of the wind; every gust was countered by radioed adjustments in the pitch of a helicopter tail rotor mounted on the lifting rig. With directional help from a magnetic compass, Smith gently stacked each concrete box atop an identical unit, to which it was sealed with more concrete. Seventy-two times last week, a guest room was thus lofted into place around the 21-story elevator core...