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...X-17 is a rocket that flies upward just as a rocket should-and then comes back to earth too fast for its own good. See SCIENCE, Man-Made Meteor...
Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...
From coast to coast the speed of the new giant's growth is staggering. In Pinellas Park, Florida last week, General Electric just opened a multimillion-dollar X-ray plant. At St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Orlando, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator, Sperry-Rand and Glenn L. Martin Co. are planning three more plants and laboratories to produce guided-missile control systems and do advanced research in electronics. New England's electronics expansion has changed the name of Route 128 near Boston to "electronics highway" Massachusetts alone has some 500 electronics plants. And in Los Angeles, where a new electronics plant...
Coming back to his take-off point at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, he pulled up the nose of the X-13 until it was hovering noisily like a rotor-less helicopter. Then he descended under the framework and maneuvered the batlike plane into take-off position. After two such demonstrations, the X-13 was tipped onto its belly and wheeled into the hangar like any other jet plane...
...basic fact that makes jet VTOLs possible: jet engines can lift much more than their own weight. The X-13, presumably, has a high-thrust power plant whose weight is as low as possible, but it must have many other novelties too. At the moment of takeoff, while it is still moving at negligible speed, its tail surfaces are useless. Some other system, such as secondary gas jets, is presumably provided to keep it under control until it has gained enough speed for the conventional control surfaces to go into operation...