Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometime this fall, if all goes well, a revolutionary new undersea vessel will be lowered gently into the waters of Monterey Bay for its maiden voyage. Named Deep Flight I, the 14-ft.-long, 2,900-lb. vehicle is shaped like a chubby, winged torpedo but flies like an underwater bird. Compared with the hard-to-maneuver submersibles that now haul deep-sea explorers sluggishly around the oceans, Deep Flight is an aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch...
...Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts, as of a breakdown that could torpedo the schedule and drive costs up. That could prove fatal to a program many U.S. critics consider a scientific dead end and a huge waste of money...
...Harvard hockey took on Torpedo Yaroslavl anyway, one of the best teams in Russia's premier hockey league...
Their size? Torpedo has one player over 190 pounds--its goalie! Without any size, Torpedo Yaroslavl had to be precise with passing, exquisite with its breakouts, and more than perfect in its shot selection...
...want diversity--Torpedo's got it. At any given time you could see a 17-year-old paired with a 34-year old on the ice. And who knows, maybe even some playing time for a teenage goalie, a mite at 5'8", 155 pounds...