Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week McDonnell Aircraft Corp. showed its XV1 convertiplane, a joint Army-Air Force project designed to sidestep many of the difficulties. On takeoff, the engine blows air through the hollow blades of the rotor. When it reaches the tips, the air makes fuel burn in small "pressure jets." Their thrust spins the rotor and lifts the ship off the ground. Then air and fuel are cut off, and the rotor idles freely while a pusher propeller flies the convertiplane like an ordinary airplane...
They climbed up through the weather at better than 300 knots; 26 minutes after takeoff, they leveled off on top at 35,000 ft. and went their separate ways. Nearly nine hours later, since home base was still socked in, four of them landed at an alternate field in North-Africa. The fifth aircraft had troubles. At 8:30 a.m., a pressure and oxygen check showed danger...
...Next day the three castaways thumbed a ride in a passing launch (full of tourists) and were taken to Butiaba, on the shore of Lake Albert. The Hemingways climbed into another plane-which not only crashed but burned on the takeoff. Again they escaped serious harm: Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck...
Last, in the crowded Columbine, came Dwight D. Eisenhower. A bandage decked one hand where, on the night before takeoff, he nicked it while showing Mamie how the Westerners once fanned their six-guns. With him came confident and well-prepared Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a squad of experts (surprise among them: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Dayton, Ohio, Major William T. Whisner Jr., 29, flashed his F-86F Sabre-jet past the finish line 3 hrs. 5 min. 25 sec. after his takeoff from Muroc, Calif, to win the 1953 Bendix Trophy race by 4"8 sec. His average speed for 1,900 miles: 603.547 m.p.h., some 50 m.p.h. faster than the record...