Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rickey's tall, stainless-steel blades and showers of metal shards shift gently with changing air currents, sound like the wind whispering through TV antennas...
...actual speed and range were not released, partly because they are legitimate military secrets, partly because the airplane has flown so far only in wind tunnels, and its true performance can only be estimated. But the Government claims it will be faster (about Mach 2.5, or 1,650 m.p.h.) than any operational plane. It will fly twice the distance and carry twice the payload of the best current U.S. fighter. By cruising at moderate speed with wings extended, it will have "transoceanic range without refueling"; if permitted to refuel, it can fly to any part of the earth...
Where the rest of the world thought it had caught up, the U.S. pulled ahead once again-as in the 100-meter dash, won by a German in 1960, this time back in U.S. hands when Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes ripped off a fantastic (but wind-aided) 9.9 sec. in the semifinal and tied the world record with a 10-sec.-flat clocking in the final. After one astonishing U.S. victory in track and field, a Japanese spectator turned to an American in the stands and said simply: "I congratulate you"-as if the entire U.S. were...
Then off he went again, bounding over and around machinery, leaving his staff to wind its listless way through noisy clumps of the newly converted...
Meanwhile Bob Hayes and Al Oerter won gold medals in track. Hayes ran a 9.9 semifinal in the 100 meter dash for a world record that won't be recognized--it was set with the aid of a 12-mile an hour wind. His time in the final was 10.0, which ties the world mark...