Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, he decided that it might as well be he. The whole business of financing and designing his plane seems in retrospect hair-raisingly slapdash. But he knew exactly what he was doing. Examining reports of earlier crashes, he figured that everything had to be subordinated to saving weight; for instance, elaborate equipment for a forced landing, he decided, was not worth the cost in weight, which could be better used for extra fuel. Similarly, he decided to fly a Great Circle course rather than follow the ship lanes, where he might be picked up in case of failure. Everyone...
Calories Don't Count was the come-on title of a book by Dr. Herman Taller that has sold almost 2,000,000 copies to would-be weight losers since 1961. The book particularly recommended use of safflower-oil capsules made by Cove Vitamins and Pharmaceuticals, and then was used in Cove promotion. Trouble was, the capsules were virtually useless in the prescribed doses. At least that was the contention of the Food and Drug Administration, and last week a federal jury in Brooklyn finally found Taller guilty on eight counts of mail fraud, three of violating FDA regulations...
...dashes, has worked well, and the plane, in its 1,800 test flights to date, has hit speeds as high as Mach 2.5. But the Navy, in particular, has complained that the F-111B, which at 66 ft. and 35 tons has grown considerably from its design size and weight, is too long and too heavy for carrier operations. The price tag, too, has grown. Instead of the $2,800,000 each plane was originally expected to cost, estimates now put the F-111A at $5,000,000, the more complex F-111B...
Cluttering rooftops, bristling from satellites and planes, protruding from walkie-talkies and TV sets, antennas are both a symbol and a necessity of the communications age. To transmit and receive signals efficiently, however, antennas must often be inconveniently large. Their sheer bulk adds crucial pounds to the weight of spacecraft, causes extra drag on the otherwise streamlined surfaces of supersonic aircraft, and is a dead giveaway to the location of radio operators on the battlegrounds of Viet Nam. Now, because of the persistence of an Air Force scientist, antennas are about to be cut down to size...
...using SIAs, says the Air Force, it will be able to eliminate 10 lbs. to 500 lbs. from from the weight of aircraft and space space vehicles. Built-in SIAs will also eventually eliminate the conspicuous whip antennas on military radios and their civilian counterparts. And when the mini-antennas are mass-produced, Turner says, manufacturers will be able to build build them inside TV sets at a cost of only $2 or $3 apiece, eliminating familiar "rabbit ears" and costly, unesthetic roof antennas...