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...almost a twentieth-century Tom Jones, full of dark energy and strong life. This energy is what Teuber captures. "You're just an old Puritan at heart," his friend Cliff tells him. "Perhaps I am at that," he answers in a rare quiet moment. But that Puritan energy, that thrust toward suffering and feeling gives Jimmy's anger its direction. He wants to believe that there's "a kind of--burning virility of mind and spirit that looks for something as powerful as itself." And he shouts as much as he does because he needs company...
...sure that if Governor Romney would only leave the state again during this legislative session, we should complete this record of achievement and forward thrust...
...Total thrust is about...
...Speed & Thrust. Most authorities credit the All's performance to its lightness, its radical double-delta wing and its equally radical engines. The weight depends largely on lavish use of titanium, which is not much heavier than aluminum, but stands the searing heat of Mach3 flight. Titanium alloys sell for more than $5 per Ib. and are difficult to fabricate, but advanced airplanes are no respecters of cost...
...have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...