Word: taillessness
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...time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration, it has been in the painting of many abnormal forms, microcephalic (small-headed), acephalic (headless), atrichous (tailless) spermatozoa with a few typical specimens...
...Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders for more because of presidential budget cuts...
...Flying Wing YB-49 is the second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...
...plane was the DH-108, a jet-propelled, tailless aircraft shaped like a sting ray. Captain De Havilland's purpose was: 1) to study problems of control in aircraft with swept-back wings (in preparation for a transatlantic airliner which is being built by his father's company); 2) to advance Britain's supremacy in aircraftsmanship by breaking the British-held world's speed record (616 m.p.h...
Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he believes that conventional airplanes will eventually be replaced by tailless flying wings. This week in Hawthorne, Calif. Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from...