An Israeli air force engineer even produced a matkot paddle made of fighter jet alloys.

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There are more than 200 files from the city engineer about air raid shelters, including three files about the shelters' sanitary arrangements.

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Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.

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Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the household machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and pumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in an Atlantic gale.

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