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Wasp Waists. Searching for a prop that could be used efficiently above 450 m.p.h., Hamilton's engineers, led by Chief Aero-dynamicist George Rosen, tried all sorts of shapes. One design, intended to sidestep shock waves, had curved blades, quite like the swept-back wings of a fast modern fighter. Another had a blade with a pinched-in "waist." Some blades were short and broad so that they could spin rapidly without nearing sonic speed. All these designs proved unsatisfactory...
Died. Frank A. Tichenor, 69, untiring advocate of air power, publisher of Aero Digest, onetime owner of the New Outlook (with the late Al Smith editing); in Greenwich, Conn...
...almost 27-two years over the limit for airmen), took 17 days of training, soloed-grandly tearing off the whole undercarriage of his plane on his return-and got a lieutenant's commission and a pilot's wings. The dashing young college men of the 94th Aero Squadron, to which he was assigned, were not pleased. Rickenbacker was a celebrity and proud of it; he knew engines and said so; he was tough, uncouth, domineering, profane, full of advice and often oil-stained. He was pointedly ignored...
Last week when Boeing employees voted to choose a bargaining agent, the aero mechanics won, 8,107 to 4,127. Dave Beck, in his own home town, had taken the worst licking of his zooming career...
...aero mechanics, however, proved surprisingly indigestible. They called off their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...