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...Brown Field, near San Diego, Convair's XFY-I "Pogo Stick" last week showed what it could do in free flight. Already dress-rehearsed in a blimp hangar (TIME, June 14), the plane now fully lived up to its billing as the Navy's first vertical-take-off fighter...
...soul, in order to set an example to "these savages." He never realizes that he is really helping the enemy. In his suspenseful, violent plot, French Novelist Boulle suggests that this particular war is fought not between East and West but between common sense and Blimpery. In the end, Blimp wins, but at a high price: he dies, crushed by a white man's burden that was too heavy...
...Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed "the Pogo Stick," the XFY-1 is the Navy's vertical-takeoff fighter. Standing upright on the tips of its delta wings and two big vertical stabilizers, the odd craft was tethered by six cables to control it, if necessary...
...state and its social services with enthusiasm-but with an insistence that people be treated as individuals. It maintains a man's right to be secure collectively, but insists on his right to advance individually. It has divorced itself from reaction, just as it has dismissed the Colonel Blimp notion that the Empire could live in a closed world of its own. Says Butler: "The school of thought I represent accepts the social changes of our times...
...Antietam's glow came from specially mounted 25-foot poles holding 800 flashbulbs which were synchronized with a camera mounted in a Navy blimp...