Word: wingtips
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...third heat with five finalists rolled around, and now even the gods were angry: a buffeting 40-m.p.h. wind whipped across the desert. Neither Miro Slovak nor Bob Love seemed to notice; both had won their second heats, and this one had $5,000 riding on it. Wingtip to wingtip they howled down the straightaway at less than 25-ft. altitude, stood shuddering on one wing in vertical, 7-G turns around the pylons. On the back stretch of the second lap, Slovak had the lead. Then they disappeared into a dust cloud. When they blasted through, Love...
...bound from Charlotte, N.C., to New York's Idlewild airport. Idlewild was blanketed by dense fog, and the plane circled above the field for 30 minutes before it got clearance to make an instrument landing. Just as it was touching down, it veered to the right. A wingtip struck the ground, and the eerie, fog-shrouded night came ablaze. Emergency crews were on the spot within minutes, festooning the wreckage with fire-extinguishing foam. Of 46 passengers and five crew members, 26 survived-and 25 died...
...point at which their lift is applied is only slightly shifted. Part of each wingtip swings into its wing root and ceases to produce lift. The part still exposed also loses lift because the airstream, slanting over it diagonally, is less disturbed by its thickness. Only the fixed wing roots do not change. When the airplane reaches top speed, with wings folded far back, the wide wing roots take over much of the lifting...
...flew 59 ground-support missions in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. After the war, he developed a cocksure method of demonstrating his flying skill. Says Marine Lieut. Colonel John Mason: "Johnny would fly up alongside you and slip his wing right under yours, then tap it gently against your wingtip. I've never seen such a smooth pilot...
...jets soared up to play tag with the Western planes, just as they had done several times before in Berlin's war of nerves. Most kept their distance, but not all. One U.S. Air Force Globemaster pilot reported that a "stranger" zoomed to within 20 ft. of his wingtip, and a plane carrying Sir Christopher Steel, the British ambassador in Bonn, was buzzed by high-diving Communist pilots...