Word: takeoff
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...Murray Schisgal laughs through his characters' tears in a takeoff of a society and a theater that swim in self-pity. Mike Nichols' direction and the performances of Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make love seem an outrageously humorous subject...
Miles of Traffic. The sudden removal of Government subsidy will probably not ground the taxi lines, but it will make the industry's takeoff somewhat more difficult. There is no doubt, however, that the helicopter is here to stay. As jets force airports farther from big cities, leaving miles of increasingly congested traffic in between, necessity is likely to keep helicopters flying...
...already demonstrated its airworthiness-but only with its wings in a slow, takeoff position. This was the time to test the wings' ability to move, to sweep backward so that the plane could switch to high-speed flight...
...dense forest outside Munich. From it has come such hardware as an experimental helicopter whose swiveling rotor blades will enable it to fly at a record 310 m.p.h., a heavy-duty rotor system that jets exhaust gases through the tips of hollow blades, and the VJ 101 vertical-takeoff fighter plane. With such help as he will get from Boeing, Ludwig Bölkow fully expects to help make Germany once again a major competitor in the world...
...flight. The F-111 is designed to fly about 3,500 miles at 1,600 m.p.h. at up to 60,000 ft. What it did was to go to 15,000 ft., achieve a top speed of 230 m.p.h., and abort after 21 minutes because its flaps, extended for takeoff, could not be retracted in flight because of "minor" mechanical failure...