Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spindrift, Whitney...
...Promise of Joy, Drury (5) 5-A. Month of Sundays, Updike (4) 6-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (6) 7-Shardik, Adams 8 -Black Sunday, Harris (10) 9-The Massacre at Fall Creek, West (7) 10-Spindrift, Whitney...
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...Spindrift, Whitney...
...hours of testing, the YF-16 prototypes proved to be more agile at the Mach 2 speeds at which the planes were designed to fly. But General Dynamics also showed a shrewd appreciation of Pentagon pride and politics. To power the YF-16, the company chose the same Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines used in the Air Force's costly ($12 million) but cherished new McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle long-range fighter. The General Dynamics fighter thus meshes neatly with the concept now gaining popularity in the Pentagon of a "HiLo Mix" in weapons systems. In essence...