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...ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds "in the right places" for added strength. An amphibian prodigy who started swimming in earnest at the age of four, Schoolboy Clark is confident that his 100-yd. record will be broken, but he hopes to be the one to do it. Says he: "I certainly don't think I've reached my fastest...
...Start an Engine. As captain, Quesada had been on assignment as adviser to the Argentine Air Force for close to three years when he was ordered back to the States in late 1940. On his own, he took off in an old Grumman amphibian that the U.S. Navy wanted returned to the country. Laden with five 5-gal.gas cans, a pair of pliers, a tire casing and some safety wire, Quesada chugged along having himself a fine time. He fished in the lake region of Argentina, threaded through the Andes ("with the Christ of the Andes above my head...
Thanksgiving. The first light broke into the dirty black sky hours later. Mays thought he saw a sea gull. He looked again, saw the flashing lights of a Coast Guard twin-engined amphibian Albatross. The men tried to get up, to signal the plane, but in a moment it was gone. The raft drifted on. As the clouds broke before the sun. Fleming and Mays looked at their watches: 8:40. Then they looked at each other: their eyes were puffed, their faces red, their lips swollen, their hands cut and bruised. Yet, somehow, now that daylight had come, they...
River estuary to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao, and before anyone could say "Where's the Dragon Lady?" found themselves heading for Red China in an ancient, twin-engined amphibian PBY, Bush piloting, Travel Agent Sullivan at his side...
...echelon reshuffle at the auto-and aircraft-parts company. He succeeded his father, Roy C. Ingersoll, 71, who relinquished the presidency after six years, but remains as board chairman and chief executive officer. Young Ingersoll joined the company in 1939, during the war spark-plugged BW's amphibian-tank project, became an administrative vice president...