Sentences with phrase «about aircraft designer»

Director David Lean commendably examines questions of principle in his sombre 1952 film The Sound Barrier telling the stiff - upper - lipped story about aircraft designer JR (Ralph Richardson), a man so obsessed and ruthless that he puts -LSB-...]

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Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.

We hear from production designer Patrick Tatopoulos about how he designed The Flying Fox aircraft carrier.