Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing beside an F-105 jet fighter-bomber and ready for takeoff, it could have been the ghost of the old Flying Tiger himself, General Claire L Chennault, who died last year. There was good reason for the startling resemblance. The craggy-faced general's craggy-faced son, Air Force Major Claire P. Chennault, 38, is 17-year veteran of the service, has two brothers, Colonel John and Master...
...N3195N cleared for immediate takeoff," radioed the control tower. In the Harvard Flying Club's Cessna 120, N. De J. Portocarrero '61 taxied on to the runway and pulled back the throttle. Seconds later, the two-seater left Bedford Airport, making a wide turn toward Cambridge. As the plane droned over route 128 and the lakes and farms of Lexington, Portocarrero explained the instrument panel: airspeed--100 m.p.m., direction--south-east, altitude--1500 feet...
...long-40 ft. more than the 6-52-has six General Electric J-93 engines (better than 150,000 Ibs. thrust) in its peacocklike tail; they can be simultaneously hot-started for takeoff in less than five minutes. The plane will cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes...
...data that it had collected in no man's land. Slowing down to 700 m.p.h. in the atmosphere. Big Joe popped a parachute when it reached 50,000 ft., then another at 10,000 ft. It sizzled into the ocean at a gentle 20 m.p.h., 20 min. after takeoff, still beeping its signals. Homing planes quickly zeroed in on Big Joe's position, radioed the nearest destroyer, and within 8 hr. the recovery ship hove to, plucked the capsule...
...impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took off on its 700-mile trip down range. Crowed the Navy: "A complete, unqualified success." But Polaris...