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...half the industry has copied the engineering change his radical body made possible-engines forward over the front axle. Not all of Mr. Chrysler's cars were Airflows but investment in dies and tools was enormous. So this year he continued the Airflow but added a more conventional Airstream. The Imperial and Custom Imperial have overdrive as standard equipment...
...Airflow. And De Soto's sales dropped from 20,000 in 1933 to about 11,000 last year. From an engineering standpoint the car was a triumph but people were suspicious of an automobile which looked the same from both ends. This year De Soto also has an Airstream in addition to a modified Airflow...
...forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze...