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Quick Change. Soon after the takeoff, the President settled down with a Western novel. He was still reading it when the Columbine landed at Augusta 2 hours and 16 minutes later. Augusta had not had a full day of sunshine since Feb. 18, but as the Columbine squared away for her landing, the sun burst through the clouds. There were still puddles of water on the airport ramp and on the highway as the Eisenhower car sped out to the Golf Club, zipped up the magnolia-lined driveway and came to a stop in front of the little (two-bedroom...
...before taxiing out to the runway. But the wings and tails of many modern transports cannot be reached from the ground; rudders present so much surface to a cross wind, moreover, that pilots often find it necessary to keep them locked while taxiing. release them just before a takeoff. Most big planes, as a result, now have built-in locking systems operated from the cockpit...
...lock all controls on the Air Force's enormous double-decked troop-carrying C124 Globemasters, pilots have to pull up a knob on the throttle pedestal. To release them before a takeoff, it is necessary to push the knob down past four notches: the throttles are freed at the first notch, the ailerons are unlocked at the second...
...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...Mach 1.5. American designers, say their British colleagues, have neglected delta-wings because they are necessarily preoccupied with long range. To get range, they designed planes with long, slender wings and high wing-loading. These tend to be fine for range, but not so good for takeoff, climb, ceiling and maneuverability. Many British designers believe that they are also inferior to delta-wings for speeds up to Mach 1.5 (1½ times the speed of sound...