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...three movable arms which are actuated by the direction-finders. Thus the relative position of "eye" to model airport is always the position of the plane over the actual airport. By television, the view of the model airport is transmitted to a small screen in the pilot's cockpit. The mechanical eye registers itself on the screen as a moving speck. That speck, the pilot knows, represents his plane, which he may guide safely over trees, fences, hangars, just as they appear on the screen. Elaborate though the scheme sounded, skeptics forbore scoffing, recalling Inventor Hammond's previous...
...sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...Guardsmen's Story: The speedboat was a known narcotic and liquor runner; stop signals and warning shots were unheeded; the craft was fired on as it fled guiltily away; not until half an hour later was it found, docked, the dying Downey in the cockpit waving his hand feebly. Although the guardsmen found neither drugs nor liquid aboard, they emphasized the fact that Downey was out on bail, charged with smuggling...
...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...
...argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself and instruments, which were illuminated, gave the plane the gun. Off were the two men. Lieutenant Kelsey with his arms resting on the gunwales, Lieutenant Doolittle completely shrouded. Fourteen miles in all he flew, seeing nothing but his instruments. Certainly, assuredly, he made...