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...pooled their savings, founded a firm called All American Racers Inc., opened a factory in Santa Ana, Calif. Working with Britain's Weslake Development Co., they produced a brand-new, three-liter engine-a tiny 400-h.p. V12-and a chassis to match. Built largely of magnesium and titanium, the whole car weighed only 1,185 Ibs. The project, of course, was painfully expensive. In all, Gurney and Shelby built four Formula I American Eagles in Santa Ana, at an average cost of $50,000. To help cover the costs, they signed contracts with two commercial sponsors-Goodyear Tire...
...heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing in rough seas around the Cup course off Newport, R.I. To keep the boat's center of gravity low and thus increase her stability in a breeze, Stephens prescribed lightweight titanium for the top third of Intrepid's 90-ft. mast, even went so far as to set the heavy sheet winches below decks rather than topside-which brought cracks that he ought to install sun lamps for the winch tenders...
Bright Core. There are other unusual features of 0237-23. The spectra of most quasars show the presence of only lighter elements, such as hydrogen, helium and silicon. The spectrum of 0237-23 shows that the expanding gas shells contain titanium and probably chromium, nickel, cobalt and iron-heavy elements never before detected in quasars...
...most costly airplane ever built. It will fly faster (1,800 m.p.h.), higher (75,000 ft.) and farther (4,000 miles) than any commercial airplane in history. To overcome temperatures of 500 degrees at the speed and altitude in which it will operate, it will be covered with titanium and stainless steel six times tougher than aluminum. For the 250 to 350 passengers aboard, it will be a winged arrow, cutting the flying time from New York to Paris, for instance, to two hours and 20 minutes. A B-2707 traveling from Los Angeles to Denver will have...
...commercial service by 1971, and Russia's TU-144 may beat the Concorde by several months. The later-starting American SST will offer several advantages over the European models. It will be one-third larger, carry nearly twice as many passengers and, thanks to its heat-resistant titanium skin, fly faster. The Concorde is limited to 1,450 m.p.h. by its aluminum body, but it will be cheaper: only $15 million or $16 million compared with $30 million for the U.S. supersonic plane. (Today's big passenger jets cost about...