Word: twinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of Communism's pretentions to world dominion...
Zipping over Dayton's Wright Field in a sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that...
WATCHUNG, N. J., Aug. 6--Ed Roberts, Jr., of Hohokus, N. J., scored an ace on the thirteenth hole, measuring 151 yards, today at the Twin Brooks Country Club. He used a No. 5 iron. Roberts won the Directors' tournament of the Ridgewood Country Club. He used a No. 5 iron. Roberts won the Directors' tournament of the Ridgewood Country Club recently...
...mark cut nearly two hours from the previous record of 9 hours, 23 minutes and 2 seconds set by a Navy Lockheed twin-engine...
Howard Hughes had one consolation: he had predicted it. After test-taxiing the XF11, a fast, twin-fuselaged, Lightning-like photo reconnaissance plane he designed and built for the Army, the manufacturer-sportsman commented: "I wouldn't worry about those rudders if I were sure an engine wouldn't conk out. If that happened, I don't think I could keep the plane in the air." Two days later he took off on the maiden test flight; within an hour an engine conked out. The plane crashed, sheared the roof off one house, ricocheted a block further...