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Supersonic aircraft now on the drawing boards will soon be moving at more than 1,500 m.p.h. At such high speed, say aeronautical engineers, friction between air and airplane will build a wall of heat-a "thermal barrier"-that will grow worse as planes fly faster. Their metal may soften like the wax in the wings of Icarus when he flew too near...
...sonic barrier, it turned out to be nothing worse than a bump in the road. Plane after plane passed over into the exhilarating calm of supersonic flight. In the current issue of Skyline magazine, Vice President Ray Rice of North American Aviation, Inc. explains why the thermal barrier can only be pushed ahead, never completely overcome...
...arrest is being guarded in deepest secrecy by the few persons close to Perón . . . This time Señor Perón is not in the same hurry to call in news correspondents as he was when he announced the sensational discovery of an Argentine thermal nuclear process for the liberation of atomic energy...
...plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
...high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...