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...Puffin. Spars were made from spruce. The plane's framework was covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands on a low-mounted handle...
...beat Wimpenny and his crew to the historic flight are two other British flying clubs. Southampton University aerodynamics students have built Sumpac, which has an 80-ft. wing span and also uses a pusher propeller. Their pilot is longdistance Runner Martin Hyman, who pedals in a low-slung cockpit while reclining on his back. Sumpac, which made its maiden flight one week before Puffin, is still given to ground loops and violent yaws that its pilot is unable to control...
Moses Barton strides into Cockpit Centre wearing a blue turban, white robe, and carrying a shepherd's staff. He announces to the startled Jamaican Negroes that he has come as a messenger of God "to break the neck of cowardice and slavery" and lead them out of bondage...
Freed after five years, Prophet Moses returns to Cockpit Centre with a new revelation: God is black. Moses leads his followers up into the hills to build the Utopian settlement of Hebron with their bare hands. But down in Cockpit Centre, the mockers who always ridiculed Moses are now rapturously following a Marxist messiah who preaches revolution and easily defeats Moses in a marketplace debate. The prophet determines to make amends for his philandering and vainglory as God's son should: through crucifixion...
...doing: he gets so many "please help us" appeals from both management and labor that he rejects far more pleas than he accepts, insists that he enters only those situations that seem to have special significance for the economy. Settling the airline strikes over the third man in the cockpit, for example, would prove that even the knottiest problems of automation, featherbedding and union jurisdiction can be solved reasonably. Whether this be called intervention or public service is a matter for dispute. But not all businessmen resent having Goldberg in the act. Said Everett Goulard, Pan Am's vice...