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...bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
...first China Clipper transpacific air mail to Hongkong, Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) sent Mme Chiang Kai-shek six peach trees...
...shipbuilders of the Lakes are the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp. of Manitowoc, Wis., and American Shipbuilding Co. with yards at Lorain, Ohio. Called the "Clipper Town" in sailing days, Manitowoc has turned out $20,000,000 worth of shipping since the present company was founded in 1904, is now engaged on a $1,250,000 tanker for Standard Oil of Indiana. Soon after May 1, American Shipbuilding Co. will lay keels for two 600-ft. freighters, first to be built on the Lakes in six years...
Delayed by a sudden storm, the Clipper's, crew spent three days making surveys of Samoa, finally got away for the test leg of the trip, the 1,800-mi. hop to Auckland, New Zealand, where the new line will tie up with a service Imperial Airways is soon to start from Australia across the 1,360 mi. Tasman Sea. This week the Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four...
...bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help. To England the news was as shocking as the crash of the China Clipper would...