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> LIFT FAN: Perhaps the most imaginative design of all is the XV-5A lift fan built by Ryan Aeronautical Co. and General Electric. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary jet fighter with two engines, but set into the stubby wings are what seem to be large manhole covers...
So firm is their faith in the advantages of solids, four large rocket companies are putting millions of their own, dollars into development-a rare gamble in the Government-nurtured aerospace industry. In addition to Lockheed, Thiokol Chemical Corp., maker of the Minuteman booster, has put $12 million into a...
It was the very casualness of the static test, the ease with which the engineers stuck to their strict schedule, that made the test so impressive. The plain cylinder, 60 ft. long and 13 ft. in diameter, made by Lockheed Propul sion Co. for the Air Force, was the biggest...
By comparison the smaller $1,000,000 Dublin embassy, designed by Connecticut Architect John M. Johansen, is exciting in design and construction. Its cylindrical shape, on a 110-ft. diameter, presents, says Johansen, a "façade that turns its back on no one." Made of concrete precast in Holland...
Ultrasound's advantage comes clearest in the case of pregnant women. No one wants to subject them to X rays because of possible harm to mother and foetus. In Denver, Dr. Holmes's colleagues have measured the skull diameter of unborn babies accurately to within one-eighth of...