Word: take-off
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...that he might hit, so airplane pilots circling below him talked him down, telling him when to drop a little ballast to keep in the air until he had cleared all dangerous obstacles. At last the gondola settled into the shallow water of Indian Creek 80 miles from its take-off place. Colonel Stapp jumped out of his helicopter and unlatched the gondola's cover. Kittinger stepped out grinning. "Not a red hair of his head," said Stapp, "had turned grey...
...industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take-off into the upper economic air by a young man who is not too finicky about throwing his friends over the side to gain altitude...
...forgoing familiar propaganda tactics. The Russians even handed their proposals to the U.S. delegation for study five days in advance of their publication. The State Department promised to "have a hard look at them." Were the Soviets now thinking more about keeping an eye on possible missile and bomber take-off points than about gathering information on bomber targets in the U.S.? If so, the U.S. delegation in London was prepared to negotiate seriously about geographical limits...
...take-off point, says Robert G. Chollar, research chief of the National Cash Register Co. at Dayton, was a trick paper coated with clay on one side and with a special colorless ink on the other side. When the sheets were superimposed and written or typed on, the clay and ink were forced into contact. The ink turned deep blue, making a "carbon copy" without carbon, but the paper was no good because in time the ink seeped through it, making unauthorized contact with the clay and staining the paper blue...
...Integrating Gyro (HIG), a 3-in. long package containing a gyroscope spinning at 12,000 r.p.m. in an inner cylinder pivoted on virtually friction-free bearings and floated in a heavy liquid. Three HIGs -one to "memorize" each coordinate of a point'on an imaginary star line at take-off -and three accelerometers (to measure change of speed in each direction) are fixed to a gimbals-mounted, free-swinging platform unaffected by changes in the plane's movements...