Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of experiment, the U.S. Air Force has a supersonic, delta-wing aircraft in production. It is the F-102 interceptor, made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Its engine is a Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet. The F-102 has a vertical fin with a conventional rudder, but it has no horizontal tail surfaces. The trailing edges of the triangular wings carry "elevens" that do double service as ailerons and "flippers" (elevator controls...
General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
Captain Wood, second in varsity scoring with 21 points, heads his Crimson team for the last time tonight. Also playing their final game for the varsity will be first line right wing Dick Clasby, second string all-New England defenseman Jeff Coolidge, and defenseman Tony Patton...
...Communism, then the people who will be returned to the Senate and House this full will not be dedicated to the Eisenhower program. The President has often needed Democratic votes to push through his program in recent months. He can not afford the election of many more right-wing Republicans obsessed with the single issue of Communist subversion and blind to the need for passage of many planks in his program. The Maine case in which a young McCarthy supporter has challenged liberal Republican Margaret Chase Smith in the Republican primaries mainly on the issue of her famed "Declaration...
...challenge the growing power of the Senator from Wisconsin without undue fear of losing the battle. Of course, he is likely to lose some strength, as he will in any battle, but this might be rather a good thing. For his great fear of losing popularity through alienating a wing of his party prevents him from putting through his program. He has bucked that wing on the Bricker Amendment issue and won, but has not yet felt strong action on the McCarthy issue is necessary. Yesterday's statement shows that the President understands the problem, but it also shows that...