Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a busy egg beater. On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy...
...designer, onetime big-plane builder Igor Sikorsky, knew that fellow airmen no longer regarded the helicopter as a product of aviation's lunatic fringe. This week his craft got formal recognition, when the Army Air Forces (which had tested it at Dayton) announced that it had ordered some helicopters for military...
Lost: the U.S. Navy's largest submarine, the 14-year-old Argonaut. A giant mine layer, 381 feet long, displacing 2,710 tons, she carried two 6-in. guns, a complement of 102 officers & men. She was the sixth undersea craft which the Navy has admitted losing since the war began...
Corsair was something new in combat aircraft: a big, rugged fighter powered with a 2,000-h.p. engine (Pratt & Whitney). Designed as a carrier craft, it is fast enough for land operations, will outspeed most land-based craft now in combat. Maneuverable, and swift on the climb, it also has plenty of altitude performance, develops its best speed (better than 400 m.p.h.) above 20,000 feet, can fight above...
...that he has been in the hospital. Illness has not prevented the Baltimore sage, who believes that beer is very close to the meaning of life, from drawing off a third foaming, savory volume of reminiscences.* As much as he loves beer Mencken loves "competence ... in any art or craft from adultery to zoology." This book is further testimony to his own competence as the nation's comical, warm-spirited, outstanding village atheist. He still stands ready to convulse, while he instructs, those fellow citizens who are willing to loaf a little on the village green...