Word: carburetors
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...name is Herman Hastings Garner, president of the Vortox Manufacturing Co., inventor and by far the largest builder of a complex carburetor air cleaner, without the like of which tanks would bog down in the desert, their engine cylinders irreparably scored by sand and dust...
...Northern France with a chunk of a telegraph pole wedged in his wing. A sergeant pilot on patrol over the Dutch coast flew his Spitfire more than 100 miles home after it was hit by three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army lorries and attacked a listening post...
...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...