Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little after noon one day last week, the scrub-pine forest that covers most of the military reservation at Fort Bragg, N.C. resounded to a distant roar. Soon the air trembled with it; across the bright blue sky rumbled 33 of the shiny, potbellied transport airplanes that the Air Force calls Flying Boxcars. The planes were low-at only a thousand feet-and in tight Vs of three. As they passed slowly over "Drop Zone Holland." a two-mile clearing in the dull green forest, they began spawning paratroopers...
...released pictures and a sketchy description of the Douglas X-3 research plane first taken into the air by Test Pilot Bridgeman, who considered it a "nasty little beast" (TIME, April 27). Actually, the X-3 is heavier and slightly longer (66 ft. 9 in.) than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold the two jet engines...
Most business airplanes are still one-engine craft, but the trend is toward two-engine planes, especially designed for business use. Probably the biggest need is for a fast, dependable transport that can cruise at 250 to 300 m.p.h., carry eight to ten passengers up to 1,000 miles nonstop, and sell for about $250,000. Several planebuilders have such a dream ship on their drawing boards. When it comes off the boards, there will be a big line of buyers waiting...
...report also attacks the current exemption plan at Yale, charging it "fails to include enough students and often does nothing for the able man except transport him into a temporary intellectual limbo where he finds it impossible to do the demanding work in his major field of interest until junior year. The general purpose of each requirement is wise and valid; but in practice the basic studies slump toward-mere tool training, the distributional program scatters toward disorder, and the system of exemptions give freedom for advanced work, but fails to ensure...
Before the construction of the new range, rifle teams had to alternate practice sessions and transport equipment between the basement of the I.A.B. and a rifle range located in downtown Boston...