Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets. (But usually this is done by widgets.) Sometimes a gremlin puts his finger over a carburetor jet and makes the motor sound for a moment as if it were conking...
...company suggested a mechanical idea which, it claimed, would save a third of the gas consumed by any healthy car. It sounded simple: just shut off half the cylinders (alternate ones in the firing order) by permanently closing intake and exhaust valves, closing the spark plug gaps, adjusting the carburetor to fit the decreased flow of fuel, etc. Five standard six-and eight-cylinder cars thus adjusted and road-tested for as much as 5,000 miles showed no mechanical damage or abnormal oil consumption. The company admitted that much gear shifting was necessary at low speeds and on hills...
Grasshopper school is divided evenly into flying and maintenance. Every pilot must know how to stitch torn wing surfaces, splice struts, fix the carburetor. Grasshopping is tough on tiny planes...
Intercooler. Not only oil but air has to be cooled for airplane engines. To supply enough oxygen for an engine at high altitudes, compressed air has to be blown into its carburetor. Though air may be as cold as -40° F. when sucked into a supercharger (TIME, Aug. 18), it often heats up to 450° F. upon compression, and must be cooled to between 30° and 100° F. before it is fed to the carburetors. The coolers used are simply air scoops which pour wind around small pipes carrying the hot, supercharged air. Intercoolers on early...
...when he was questioned about the probable response here to the movie's sathe of the University. A pre-war graduate who has already celebrated his twenty-fifth reunion, the former Lampoon editor admitted that he doesn't "understand the modern Harvard man, the 1941 model. The engine and carburetor are the same," he claimed...