Word: thrustingly
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...problem that worries the designers of jet bombers and airliners is how to make them stop quickly enough on short or slippery runways. Propeller-driver ships merely change the angle of their propeller blades and use the reversed thrust to kill their speed. A jet has no propeller, and a drag parachute broken out of the tail in the landing run is a cumbersome solution...
This week Boeing Airplane Co. told about its experiments with certain gadgets to reverse the thrust of a jet engine. The type that finally worked best for Boeing is a divided, clamshell-like contraption that normally fits snugly around the end of the tailpipe. When the airplane has touched the ground, the halves of the clamshell swing backward and inward, cutting the blast of hot gases and partially reversing its direction...
...result, says Boeing, is that the engine exerts more than 40% of its thrust in reverse, thus braking the airplane in the same manner as a reversed propeller. When not in use, the apparatus is completely out of the gas stream and so has no effect on the engine's operation. It weighs about 200 lbs. per engine, 800 lbs. for a four-jet airplane...
...into the center of the stream of gases. This diverts the gases into an expanding cone and makes them hit the rings, which are shaped to catch them and reverse their direction. Aerojet says that its device, which has already been flight tested, gives up to 50% of reversed thrust...
Many plays achieve Broadway, but few have Broadway thrust upon them. Alfred Hayes's The Girl on the Via Flaminia was successful at Greenwich Village's Circle in the Square, when out of the blue the arena-type playhouse was closed as a firetrap. Finding no other Village theater available, the producers last week reluctantly moved The Girl to Broadway...