Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes handsome, 23-year-old test pilot Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin felt the plane out, reporting steadily by radio to observers on the ground. Once, he shot up to 550 miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
...been flying almost continuously for seven years, first by dint of washing planes at an airport near his grandfather's Greensburg, Pa. farm, then as a flying officer in the R.C.A.F., then as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and finally as a member of Bell's test staff...
...daredevil or exhibitionist, Slick Goodlin took over the job of testing the XS-1 on the understanding that he would fly it no faster than 82% of the speed of sound unless he was convinced that it would safely go faster. Approximately 20 more preliminary flights are planned between now and next summer; Goodlin has the privilege of recommending that the XS-1 be flown pilotless by radio control in its supersonic test. But last week, after months of devouring engineering and wind-tunnel reports, and after handling the plane under power, he said: "I know what this airplane...
...toughest test, he had to find two dead ducks which had been planted among the rushes across a 150-foot-wide bay. Shed waited calmly at the water's edge until he got the signal from Bakewell. Then he plunged bravely into chilly Crab Orchard Lake, but not with...
...Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...