Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars...
Under the Saw. New Jersey's Palisades Park has installed an outsized, 100-ft.-high Ferris wheel which jazzes up the ride with horizontally revolving seats. Nearby is The Monster-an "octopus" crossed with Lord-knows-what by some madman, and just the ticket to produce four-way stomach upset. Six Flags, near Dallas, has the Aserradero (Spanish for sawmill), with a water flume ride that puts four passengers into a hollow log, runs them under a circular saw, shoots them along a rapids, finally abandons them to the simple trauma of a steep downhill sluicing...
...York's Freedomland, so far a financial disaster (to the tune of some $5,000,000 per annum), has now surrounded its stagecoach and paddle-wheel steamers with some $3,000,000 worth of traditional hold-onto-your-hat rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m...
...freewheeling" engine (turning between 30,000 and 70,000 r.p.m.) provided no slowing effect on corners, putting a fantastic strain on the brakes. Nevertheless, the car never even needed a change of tires; and Britain's Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix champion, who shared the wheel with the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, completed the full 24 hours at an average speed of 108 m.p.h. for seventh place overall. Said Hill: "Just like a Sunday afternoon drive with my family...
Right the First Time. The pioneers of nondestructive testing were the rail road brakemen, who used to tell if a steel car wheel was cracked by whacking it with a hammer to see if it rang true. United Air Lines technicians use basically the same principle today when they bombard jet turbine blades with electronically generated sound to see if the blades resonate at a frequency that indicates there is no danger of breakage. Westinghouse uses ultrasonics -super high-frequency sound waves - to probe right through big forgings in the rotors of its giant $2 million turbine generators and detect...