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...yard dash equalled the mark set in 1933 by E. E. Calvin. Dow also ran a 21.3 in winning the 220-yard dash, tying the record set by D.D. Pirnie in 1941. The 220 time will not be listed as a record, however, because of a strong tail wind...
...have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
...French must so often use in Indo-China. The flares were designed for bomb-bay release, but tonight they would have to be shoved by hand from the C-47's door. The delicate business of arming them must be done after takeoff. A sergeant flung one flare tail cap on the floor and swore. "It's defective," he grumbled. "This happens all the time. The bombs are too old." He pointed to the date stenciled on the flare bomb by its U.S. manufacturer...
...every space fan knows, the spaceship will approach the moon tail first, its rocket motors blasting hard enough to cancel the speed of falling through the moon's gravitational field. As it nears the surface, it will extend three spring-cushioned legs on which (if all goes well) it will come to rest in a vertical position, undamaged and ready for the earthbound blastoff. This delicate maneuver requires a level landing site; if the spaceship were to hit the lunar equivalent of the Grand Canyon, it would have small chance of seeing the earth again...
...bombers and airliners is how to make them stop quickly enough on short or slippery runways. Propeller-driver ships merely change the angle of their propeller blades and use the reversed thrust to kill their speed. A jet has no propeller, and a drag parachute broken out of the tail in the landing run is a cumbersome solution...