Word: wingless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiv's eye for survival, the derisive eloquence of a shameless man and the bogus kind of face that, as he suggests, would go well on a butler or a bishop. As Author Linklater tells it in his savagely comic novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned you. No more than Clive or Hastings, Raffles or Lugard . . . have I deserted...
...gross of $722,000 in 1940 to $123 million in fiscal 1956, has bounced radio beams off the moon, shot a high-frequency TV beam 800 miles around the curvature of the earth to bring man closer to the goal of transoceanic television (TIME, May 19, 1952), developed a wingless aircraft, the "Aerodyne" (TIME, Jan. 9), and is now working on highly secret missile-guidance systems and earth satellites...
Since the arrival of jet engines, hangars all over the country have been full of odd model aircraft, designed to take advantage of the jet's enormous thrust. Most of them are freaks that will never fly. Last week designers were studying a novel wingless aircraft that is not in the same class. Its originator, Dr. Alexander Martin Lippisch, 61, a top German airplane designer in World War II, was largely responsible for the delta wing and Nazi Germany's ME-163 rocket plane. His new "aerodyne," however odd-looking, cannot be laughed off as a crazy inventor...
...Vienna just ahead of the invading Russians. He now works for the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has an embryo aeronautical division. His aerodyne* (he refuses to have it called an airplane), which has flown only in the form of small electrically powered models, is truly wingless. It looks like a fuselage with no wings, and it gets its lift from a blast of air blown out through a big hole in its belly. The air comes in through the nose, is compressed and speeded up by a jet engine driving internal propellers. Then part...
...other hand, he asks, did Otto Lilienthal, the Wright Brothers, Santos-Dumont, and a hatful of other pioneer airmen?among them, Igor Sikorsky ?come into a wingless world lusting to fly and apparently equipped with some kind of built-in mental equipment which helped them do so? Sikorsky never goes so far as to conclude that he is an instrument of Divine Providence, but neither can he, as a deeply religious man, avoid-wondering how else to explain some of his own rarer moments of intuition...