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...left. Bridgeman was on his own. With bare hands (no gloves for this critical job), he flicked four switches in quick sequence. Each switch fired a rocket chamber. They made a curious sound-a "bloof" and a "schplunk," as Bridgeman describes it. A trail of dense white vapor streamed out from the tail. Ten seconds after the drop, Bridgeman was speeding faster than sound. He did not even feel this "passing through the fence...
Attack from the Sun. Anderson was riding in a 6-29 piloted by Captain Warren Cook of Vacaville, Calif. As Anderson told it later to a TIME correspondent: "There they were, eight or ten streamers [vapor trails], a beautiful picture. We turned 18° to get all the tail wind we could. As we turned, the MIGs went over past us. They were going to turn into us from the sun, make head-on passes and pick...
Alcohol in liquid form is still the only way to get drunk effectively. According to tests completed recently by two Yale scientists, just breathing in the vapor...
Even when a man is breathing hard and under great physical exertion, the amount of vapor he could inhale wouldn't get him drunk. As much as 62 percent of the alcohol inhaled is absorbed into the blood stream. The remaining 38 percent is lost through exhalation...
Nininger does not believe that important masses of iron are buried under the crater. Chunks found near the rim, he thinks, were loosely attached parts that somehow escaped the heat. The rest of the two main meteorites flashed into vapor and fell to earth as a deluge of white-hot iron rain...