Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week's end Tunner's men had installed landing lights and Ground Controlled Approach equipment at Kimpo. Soon they hoped to increase the landing rate to one plane every six minutes around the clock. The speed-up wouldn't stop there. "The trouble with airplanes," says hard-driving General Tunner, "is that they spend altogether too much time on the ground...
...were obsolescent; antitank weapons were out of date. Most of World War II's mighty Navy lay cocooned, prepared to fight off rust rather than an enemy. Even the Air Force, the strategic bombing darling of military planners, had to scramble to find planes to give ground troops limited tactical support...
...early models could be used only once; they smashed themselves to bits when they smacked the earth. So the models had to be equipped with telemetering devices to send the readings of their instruments by radio to recording receivers on the ground-an expensive and not always efficient process...
Last week the NACA told about a recoverable model that can be used over & over again. In its tail is a strongly made dive-brake which opens gradually as the model approaches the ground (see cut). When the speed has been reduced sufficiently, a parachute pops out and lowers the model to the earth. The model's instruments are self-recording. After the records have been taken out and the parachute repacked, the model can be sent aloft for another drop...
...upon the ground...