Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potted Chicken? As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired...
...mixed physiology class. Some students, says one history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed by a cafe owner who asserts that "Communism is infiltrating our schools through the National Education Association...
Speed & Thrust. Most authorities credit the All's performance to its lightness, its radical double-delta wing and its equally radical engines. The weight depends largely on lavish use of titanium, which is not much heavier than aluminum, but stands the searing heat of Mach3 flight. Titanium alloys sell for more than $5 per Ib. and are difficult to fabricate, but advanced airplanes are no respecters of cost...
...double-delta wing is a shrewd solution to the difficult problem of sustaining flight at three times the speed of sound while still providing good control for reasonably slow-speed loitering and landing. The broad, rear delta develops high lift at moderate speeds, but as a swept-wing plane moves faster, its center of lift shifts rearward towards the tail. If it is not counteracted in some way, this shift will make the plane dangerously nose heavy. A pilot might use his elevators to hold the nose up, but this maneuver would cause costly drag. The All licks the problem...
...present the committee's energies have been directed towards organizing the drive itself, and plans for use of the funds are still vague. Most suggestions center around the construction of a special wing of the library dedicated to President Kennedy's youth. But a better goal exists...