Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time will come, thinks the CAA, when "explosive decompression" must be faced squarely. Jet airliners will have to fly at 40,000 ft. to economize fuel. The best way to make them decompression-proof, think some CAA men, would be to build cabins with no windows at all. A television eye in the plane's nose could show the passengers the country passing below-or movies could amuse them...
...principle, the afterburner is as simple as ABC. The tailpipe of an ordinary turbojet engine is lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces. When maximum power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...
...actual performance figures of up-to-date afterburners are secret. The great flames are probably inefficient, using floods of fuel. But they will toss a fighter up to 40,000 feet in half the time that would be needed without them. For an interceptor like the F-94, a few minutes saved in climbing might mean success in downing an enemy bomber...
...Solomon-like verdict, enterprising Northeastern gets roughly 54% of the estimated New England natural-gas market, Algonquin the remaining 46%. Both companies expected to begin selling their natural gas by next fall. Neither could start too soon to suit New England, where lack of natural gas has kept industrial fuel costs high...
...Allen learned the Street's ways so well that he parlayed his pocket change into $15 million. With his younger brothers Herbert and Harold, he built the potent investment banking firm of Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2,1948). They bought up and reorganized the Rockefellers' famed Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Germany's war-forfeited American Bosch Corp., captured many another plum with their sharp-eyed knack for spotting "special situations...