Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
...floating aileron gives control at any angle of flight, adds non-stalling characteristics to the plane's performance, does not affect the life of the lower wing. The minimum performance requirements of the competition, included in the 18 preliminary tests which the Tanager successfully passed, are a high speed of 110 m.p.h., a minimum speed of 35 m.p.h., a rate of climb of 600 ft. per min. at sea level, a range of flight of 405 mi. at full throttle, an absolute ceiling (maximum altitude to which plane can travel) of 15,000 ft. By passing the preliminaries...
This new tube at present uses only 250,000 volts, which flick electrons off the cathode at tremendous speed. The electrons rush through a stream of mercury vapor ions overloaded with four charges of positive electricity. Ions and electrons crash and reinforce their speeds, giving the stupendous effect of 1,000,000 volts. If the 1,000,000 volts available at Caltech were used initially, the effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts...
...splashes against a woman's stockings which a moving motor car would make is something which members of the American Mathematical Society who met at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., last week could figure out-given among other factors the depth and viscosity of the puddle, the weight and speed of the car, the shape and inflation of the tire, the position and shape of the legs. They could calculate something harder than that from sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks...