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Novel Control. At 10,000 ft. over Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Test Pilot Richard L. Johnson began the critical maneuver that is the F-111's reason for being. In the instrument-crammed cockpit, he reached for a novel control: a pistol grip that can be...
During its hourlong flight, the F-111 climbed to a modest 27,000 ft. and flew at only 450 m.p.h., which is less than one-third of its planned 1,650-m.p.h. speed. But the revolutionary wing mechanism worked perfectly, and the airplane handled easily with wings in all positions...
Far-Fetched Maneuver. Dr. Strong does not reject Mariner figures, only their interpretation. To take the temperature of a planet's invisible surface by radio is, he thinks, a far-fetched maneuver. All sorts of things besides hot rocks and dust can generate radio waves. They may come, for...
The fix came none too soon. Besides being a guide on the way to Mars, Canopus also served to aim Mariner's directional radio antenna back toward earth, enabling Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists to calculate the craft's flight path. Knowing that path, the rocketeers were able to...
It was a complicated maneuver, and it failed. It was Nenni's Socialists who were isolated, not the Communists. At the first national elections after the apertura, in 1963, the Communists gained a formidable million votes. Then it was argued that the coalition experiment had not yet had time...