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...Next they added to the tail pipe a metal cylinder with holes all around and closed at the rear end with a metal cone. It worked well in reducing noise level, but since the gas jets pointed every which way, the engine lost nearly all of its thrust...
Final trick was to stud the tail pipe cylinder with holes made in such a way that the gas streams escaping through them pointed almost directly backward. This device preserved most of the engine's thrust, and also eliminated nearly all of its low-frequency noise...
...cone closed. The mighty stream of hot gases will be broken into small and comparatively quiet jets. After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened. Then the engine will have full thrust for economical cruising, and its noise, muffled by distance and altitude, will not matter...
Recent pictures of new Russian bombers caused a flurry of speculation among engine experts. The Tupolev Bison, for instance, is about as big as the U.S. B-52. which has eight J57 jet engines, each rated at 10,000 Ibs. of static thrust (but capable of substantially more). But the Bison has only four engines, which led the experts to conclude that they must have at least 15,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...stood in a vestibule which was painted pitch black. The only light came from the yellow eyes of a weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence...