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Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety...
As the Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from...
It seems that this ensign, '37, fresh from his instruction at the stony hands of Johnny Harvard and the unpainted finger nails of Emily Post, approached a revolving door with the chicken hearted ambition of merely getting to the other side. But he didn't count on discovering in the...
Corporal Keene, flight engineer, picked up the interphone to speak to the pilot. When he got no reply, Keene climbed down from his high-hung, isolated engine compartment to see what the trouble was. First he saw the remains of the chief gunner. The others in the eight-man Australian...
> An impact switch has been developed by Walter Kidde & Co. which automatically releases several pounds of compressed carbon dioxide gas into the engine compartment of a plane if it crashes, thus helps to put out fire even if the pilot is incapacitated. An adjustable trigger device prevents release of the...