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...course in navigation will include radio beam flying, practical problems which come up in cross country flights, map-reading, and course plotting, as well as other phases it navigation...
...satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected by the beam of light...
Captain Clayton straightened up from his fiddling with the device. The sergeant barked: "Light!" Instantly the searchlight bored a narrow, dazzling hole through the darkness over the sea. Three miles away, one mile from where it was last seen, the Pontchartrain gleamed in the centre of the beam...
...searchlight went out. Again & again, while the Pontchartrain moved invisibly to new positions at sea, the searchlight flashed on to impale the craft on the beam's end. Nineteen times the beam struck the cutter amidships. Once it caught only the stern...
...abysmal reaches of space, Dr. Einstein advanced in 1915 his General Theory of Relativity, which brought celestial performances into the four-dimensional theatre of space-time and made gravity an effect of space-time's curvature. Today Relativity is as familiar a guide to astronomers as a radio beam to an aviator...