Word: designs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force, which has batted down many a flying-saucer report, has long wished (in private) that it could build one. By last week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make hallucination come true. Air Force men have inspected a Canadian mockup saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
...Coanda Effect. Frost, who lives in Toronto with his wife and son, helped to design wartime gliders, later the Vampire jet and DH-108 tailless jet. As chief design engineer for special projects at A.V. Roe Canada. Ltd. (part of Britain's famed Hawker-Siddeley aircraft group), he worked on Canada's first home-built jet fighter, the CF-100. Meanwhile, in a top-secret screened area at Avro's Maiton plant, he designed flying saucers-at least one 40-ft. mockup, with a flattened end and spindly undercarriage. This model, quickly nicknamed he "Praying Mantis...
...announcing the courses, Dean Sert explained that urban design is becoming an increasingly important problem for technicians and the public...
...Urban design is the meeting ground of architects, landscape architects, and city planners; and work in this field may be the greatest challenge to the three professions," he stated...
Four professors, plus visiting experts, will give the school's third now course, Advanced Architectural Design, which is built around special projects in urban design. Dean Sert expects to work in conjunction with Assistant Professors Carlhian, Sasaki, and Ronald Gourley...