Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa...
...Senate, after voting down cuts proposed by Illinois' left-wing Democrat Paul Douglas and Idaho's right-wing Republican Henry Dworshak, unanimously approved a $34.5 billion defense appropriation-virtually all, except for bookkeeping shifts, that the Administration had asked...
...Assembly. Last week, as the French Assembly moved into the final stages of debate on the two treaties, attendance was scant-at one point only 18 Deputies were in the chamber-and the sole outburst of passion occurred in the parliamentary bar, where insulted Communists felled an aggressive right-wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy on the heat which blanketed Paris as well as Bonn, but a more accurate explanation was that everyone knew that the treaties would pass with a comfortable majority. Not even the French National Assembly could ignore the cold logic...
...earliest airplane designers knew that air turbulence was their enemy, tried to build wings that would slip through the air as smoothly as fish drift through water. They always failed. As the air flowed over the wing, it broke into curling eddies that dragged at the plane and drank up the engine's power. In theory, the scientists knew that this "burble" effect could be prevented by sucking into the wing a thin layer of air, and with it the incipient eddies. The remaining air would glide past the whole wing in smooth "laminar flow" (see diagram...
This long-discussed system remained largely a dream for 50 years. But last week Northrop Aircraft, Inc. recorded the results of seven years of experimentation with "low drag boundary layer control." After elaborate tests with models in wind tunnels, Northrop engineers fitted the wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even...