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Most important improvement over the V-2 is the steering system. The V-2 was steered on take-off by graphite vanes in the discharge tube. By deflecting the hot stream of gases, they kept the rocket upright and on its course until it gained enough air speed to allow the rudders in the tail to take effect...
...effort. The P-80R, though designed as a practical military airplane rather than a souped-up racing job, is a refinement of Lockheed's P-80 (Shooting Star). It has a thinner, broader wing, a smaller canopy than the original model. Its Allison 400 turbojet engine develops a take-off thrust of 4,600 Ibs. Half of this tremendous power is soaked up in attaining the last 70 m.p.h...
...York City's LaGuardia Field, 42 were killed in a take-off accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
Moment of Decision. As he passed the 2,000-ft. mark with his engines turning at full take-off power, he faced one of a pilot's most critical decisions. Should he use the rest of the runway in trying to get off? Or should he obey the classic flying rule that it is safer to plough through a fence on the ground than to push through, a bad takeoff...
With true sportsmanship, the Navy helped the Army in its attack on the record. Ready for the take-off in Hawaii, the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat, 27,000 lbs. overweight, was expected to need every mile of runway it could get. The Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...