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...trailer takeoff, an F-84 Thunderjet is equipped with a big "booster bottle" (solid propellant rocket) fixed under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from...
Many of the new outboards had electric starters and mufflers and vibration-free mountings that sharply cut their noise. Evinrude has a new tilt-compensator that keeps the engine from bouncing against the back of the boat when the power is cut suddenly. Scott-Atwater has equipped all its engines, from 5 h.p. to 30 h.p., with its Bail-a-matic device, which bails the boat automatically as long as the engine is running...
...check was in payment of a fine levied against Onassis after Peru caught five of his whaleships hunting within the 200-mile offshore limit that Peru claims to control. But in Paris Onassis was just about as pleased as the Peruvian government. He had come out of his troublesome tilt with Peru not only unscathed but possibly money ahead...
...Druids. 30-year-old Soprano Callas lived up to her reputation. With her lissome figure handsomely clad in white and crimson, she looked almost too young and beautiful to be a pagan high priestess. She made a minimum of movement onstage, achieved precise dramatic effects by the tilt of her head or the angle of her body, but also electrified the crowd with slashing moments of violence, as when she confronted her faithless lover in Act II. Her voice ranged from flutely pianissimos that penetrated to the last row of the distant balcony to mezzo-fortes of melting sweetness...
...authorities question whether it really gives any more protection than good muscle tone, properly used. The Navy's Captain Charles F. Gell believes that the answer to G forces is not a suit but a reclining seat. At the Johnsville (Pa.) Air Development Center, he has experimented with tilt-back models which would enable a pilot to take the stresses fore and aft instead of up and down. But this makes for difficulties in seeing out and handling the controls...