Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airmobile combat troops, their artillery and ground vehicles, will be flown into combat by the division's 400 huge LOH, Chinook and Iroquois helicopters. The division will have six twin-engined Grumman OV1 Mohawks with infra-red scanning devices, radar and cameras for reconnaissance duty. One of the division's three brigades will be trained as paratroops...
...Smith's Aircraft Instruments and Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely...
...exhibit of their supersonic Concorde, taking advantage of the lone air-transport realm in which the U.S. lags, pointed proudly to 47 orders already on the books for the still unbuilt plane. The French government seized the occasion to order Sud-Aviation to build 13 more of its twin-jet Caravelles, and France's Nord-Aviation showed off the twin-engined Transall cargo plane that it has developed with five German firms...
Commander Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare ordered his twin commando columns to dash straight to Buta-in hopes of surprising the Simbas before they could...
Born. To Geraldine Page, 40, most often seen as a neurotic, fluttery spinster on stage (The Three Sisters) and screen (Dear Heart), and Rip Torn, 35, her third husband; their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan...