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...hours earlier, McDivitt and Schweickart had crawled from Gumdrop-the Apollo command and service module-and made their way through a narrow tunnel into Spider. Then, after a few uneasy moments when the docking mechanism snagged, Scott worked Gumdrop loose and fired his thrusters briefly to separate the two craft. With McDivitt at the controls, Spider shoved off onto its maiden solo flight. It moved into a different orbit from Gumdrop's and at one point fell more than 100 miles behind. Then McDivitt began maneuvering back toward the suspenseful rendezvous and docking. Had they not been able...
...Tunnel to the Island. With an economy more heavily dependent on exports than any other in the world, Hong Kong increased sales to foreign customers in 1968 by 26%, to $1.4 billion. Bank deposits climbed 20%. The stock market reached an alltime high. Tourism soared as 618,000 visitors spent $160 million and 200,000 U.S. servicemen on R & R left behind another $60 million...
...when tourism is expected to total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
Reduced Drag. Wind-tunnel data revealed that when the airflow reached sonic and supersonic velocities along the redesigned upper surface, only a modest shock wave was generated near the trailing edge of the wing. There was negligible turbulence. Although the changes did not affect lift, drag was reduced by as much...
...construction of a flight-test version of Whitcomb's wing. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, the wing will be mounted on a modified F-8 jet-fighter and will undergo test flights in the summer of 1970. If the performance measured in Langley's wind tunnel is duplicated in flight, a new generation of more efficient subsonic jets may soon be cruising major U.S. air routes at speeds as high as 645 m.p.h...