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...Giant is one of a new class of faster, higher and wilder roller coasters roaring onto the amusement-park scene this summer. Far more terrifying than rides of old, the megacoasters, with names like Viper, Iron Wolf and Georgia Cyclone, employ computer technology, ultramodern materials and aerobatics to deliver a plexus punch to those brave enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since...
Chrysler has tantalized car buffs for more than a year with glimpses of a muscular two-seater called the Viper. The roadster won rave reviews at U.S. auto shows, but Chrysler coyly refused to say whether the Viper would ever become a production car. The fan dance ended last Friday when Chairman Lee Iacocca said the company will build the car, but only about 500 annually. Powered by a 400-h.p., ten-cylinder engine, the Viper will be built for speed and handling. Chrysler insiders claim that the car will be able to accelerate like a rocket sled, zooming from...
...products. McDonnell Douglas, the No. 1 defense contractor, is currently competing with Boeing for a contract to build a new generation of light military helicopters. McDonnell Douglas boasted last week that its new choppers can be easily repaired in the field. Everything from their turbine engines to their pit- viper cannons can be fine-tuned with twelve simple tools that weigh only 2 lbs. and can be carried in a small canvas...
...grooved his Viper jet through a long, graceful arc in the late summer sky, his forefinger and thumb caressing the plane's stick as if it were a violin. The aircraft's needle nose pointed toward the runway below at the U.S. Navy's Fentress Air Field near Norfolk, Va. Engine open and screaming, gulping in the thick air, the Viper reached max speed of 264 ft. per sec. 20 ft. above the concrete and leveled out for its pass. A faint touch of aileron and the ship rolled on its back. The crowd gasped. Heads swung in unison...
Eric Baugher, 29, of Bowie, Md., is Top Gun, chiefly because his toolbox decal jauntily proclaims him so. Throughout the Viper's stunning aerobatics, Baugher stood rooted to the tarmac manipulating a tiny radio that controlled the sleek, alcohol-powered jet, which has a 4-ft. wingspan and a 5-ft.-long fuselage. Baugher was one of 1,139 model-airplane fanatics who trundled 7,000 tiny planes into the Norfolk area to compete in the National Model Airplane Championships. Known widely as the Nats, the show is the largest, most diverse gathering of its kind on the globe...