Word: catapulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jane's also reported that the Russians are at work on three 35,000-ton battleships, each "equipped with two catapult towers for firing radio-controlled aerial torpedoes." Two of them, reputedly laid down at Archangel in 1942, may already be in commission; the other is reported to have been delayed by German bombing at Leningrad during...
...Wright Brothers endeavored to take off in the manner you describe [TIME, Feb. 9], they would still be sitting on their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down...
...account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
...were to keep their freedom out on loan, they would want results, and before 1950. In a speech at Musselburgh, Scotland, Clement Attlee summed up his Party's aims: "To build a new society ... of peace, freedom and social justice." If it built all that, Labor might well catapult old, tired Britain into a new and thrilling place in the sun. If it failed, Britain would catapult Labor...
...carrier's catapult had gone haywire, had shoved him and his eight-ton aircraft overside-a 40-ft. plunge. The plane's belly tank had been rammed into the cockpit, flooding him with searing gasoline. He had been slammed tight against the cockpit hood, his only means of escape...