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...radarmen of the Water Survey first focused on a thundercloud which had suddenly grown a tail (the large blob of light near top in first cut). This was the start of the tornado funnel, still high in the air and shooting toward the east at about 48 m.p.h...
...this-world design of Bill Bridgeman's new airplane would scare the daylights out of the ordinary pilot. The X-3 has a long, droopy nose that looks as if it had softened and wilted slightly. High and far to the rear juts a monstrous tail. The fuselage has just enough room for two big jet engines, whose bulky, cylindrical shapes bulge the skin outward. The plane is much bigger than a standard fighter, and extremely heavy for its size: in engineers' lingo it has a prodigiously high "solidarity factor." But all it has for wings are thin...
...host of air pressures all over the plane. They told the position of wheels, flaps and control surfaces. They rode herd on scores of temperatures inside and outside the engine and on the skin of the plane itself. They detected the first feeble flutters of a vibrating tail or wingtip. Every motion and tremor of the X3, as it rode high above the desert's Joshua trees, was written down continuously in lines of light in the trailer...
...stock market slump had knocked American Republics shares down to $11.50, Rieber began spending some of Barber's idle cash picking them up. By 1952 he had acquired 33⅓% of the stock for an average price of $25. By so doing, he made American Republics a bigger tail than the Barber dog. Last year the company grossed $22.2 million, netted a thumping $5,200,000 after taxes. Last week's deal will still leave Barber holding 25% of American Republics-and Rieber still firmly in control...
...another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body. It is designed to reach 2,250 m.p.h...