Word: transporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mostest." But would the RDF arrive first with the most? Brown estimates that the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which the Pentagon rates as the sharpest, most combat-ready unit in the U.S., would take several weeks to reach its destination because it lacks enough cargo planes to transport its equipment. A Marine division would take even longer to arrive by sea. A small war might be ended, disastrously or otherwise, by the time these forces were on the scene. Warns an Army staff officer: "With piecemeal efforts, you run the risk of piecemeal defeat...
...technology of wind-assisted transport ships is relatively simple. West German Engineer Wilhelm Prölss did major research on the subject in the mid-1960s, but his studies went unnoticed during a time of cheap energy. The new sailing ships are not entirely dependent upon wind, but rather use the breezes to cut down the work of the regular engines. Says Frank K. Schallenberger, who formed Dynaship Corp. to use Prölss's designs: "I don't see how it's possible for shipbuilders and shipowners to ignore sail-powered ships. Five percent...
...cargo space. The airships, which will be powered by four 1,150 h.p. turboprop engines, will cruise at about 3,000 ft. They will have a top speed of 86 m.p.h. and be able to cross the Atlantic in 2½ days. As the price of energy keeps soaring, transport ships and dirigibles assisted by free air may be gliding gracefully back into popularity...
...fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...
Meanwhile, the development of new weapons continues. A new "Binary" weapons delivery system is in the works. Binary munitions are actual bombs containing two harmless chemicals that when mixed during the flight of the missile, create a lethal gas. This system makes the transport of chemical weapons less hazardous, but its simplified technology might allow other countries to manufacture chemical weapons...