Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That impressive test was part of a program sponsored by the Air Transport Association to clear the fog from the nation's airports. Known as a Fog-Sweep, the big machine is actually a mobile blower with a 100-ft. flexible plastic tube that pops up, jack-in-the-box style, once its fan starts whirling. Out of the tube comes a spray of chemicals that are close kin to ordinary household detergents. And 70% of the time, they can "wash" away enough fog to let planes fly in and out of closed-down airports...
LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). The crew of a rocket-powered transport en route to London from the U.S. strays off course and embarks on a fantastic voyage to a strange planet inhabited by giants. This new series stars Gary Conway, Kurt Kasznar, Don Matheson, Don Marshall, Deanna Lund and Heather Youns. Premiere...
...good for the fly-boys has to be valuable for the rocketeers who send them out of this world. So there was Dr. Wernher von Braun, 56, director of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, floating around the cabin of a C-135 jet transport while the pilot flew a precise "over-the-hump" curve to produce 30 seconds or so of weightlessness. Von Braun made twelve of the trips and marveled that the sensation was "exhilarating. You cannot imagine what it is like unless you experience...
...sense, the airlines have been buffeted by their own success. Airline revenues have more than tripled during the past decade, and the industry expects to transport 300 million passen gers a year on domestic flights by 1975, compared with 125 million last year. Gearing themselves to the crush of expected business, most major carriers have been busily adding new flights to their schedules and laying out huge sums for stretched jet transports, jum bo jets and supersonic aircraft. In the process, they have found themselves trapped in an ever worsening cost-profit squeeze...
When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers predicted would never work. Last week, 21 months and many millions later, the skeptics were proved right. Boeing is now scrapping its movable wing. To take its place, the company has decided on a stationary swept-back configuration that bears more than a passing resemblance to Lockheed's original "delta" wing design...