Word: take-off
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Then the French daily, L'Equipe, published a picture of Yuri in action. Every high-jumper who saw it leaped to a quick-conclusion: there was something sneaky about the Soviet jumper's sneakers. The sole of the take-off shoe looked uncommonly thick. Maybe it was bouncy enough to give Igor and Yuri an extra boost...
Conceived by Saunders and drawn by his partner Ken Ernst, the take-off on Capp seemed to contain too many dirty digs to be just good clean fun. When Mary Worth pays a visit to the summer home of "Comic Strip Artist Hal Rapp," he proves a coarse cad. "Hey! Who's this old biddy?" he demands. "I was expecting somebody younger! Get the idea?" Soon he is hurling a glass of booze (poured into a tumbler decorated with a Capp-created Shmoo) at one of the peons who turns out his strip Big Abe on the assembly line...
Airplanes are slowly outgrowing their need for long runs on the ground before getting into the air. The reason is jet engines, which deliver so much thrust that they can lift themselves and an airframe vertically, without needing take-off help from the lift of a fast-moving wing...
...latest VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) airplane to do this trick successfully is Bell Aircraft Corp.'s X-14, whose pictures were made public last week. Unlike Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s X-13 (TIME, May 20), which stands on its tail while taking off, the X-14 takes off in normal horizontal flying position. Its two jet engines blow their gas through thrust-diverters rather like Venetian blinds. The gas, deflected downward, pushes the airplane up. During the hovering period, jets of compressed air act as controls to keep it in the proper position. After the airplane...
...pilot has little to do. He tells the 67 the position of the take-off point (in latitude and longitude, from his chart) and the course to his objective. Then he flies the airplane so that the course-error needle reads zero. It will take him any place in the world. It will even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through...