Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying machine designed to give the infantryman more mobility than he has ever had before. Built by De Lackner Helicopters, Inc., the 200-Ib. Aerocycle is equipped with helicopter blades and powered by a 44-h.p. outboard motor mounted above pontoons which enable the pilot to set his craft down on land or water. The Aerocycle can carry 300 Ibs., has a maximum speed of 65 m.p.h. and a 150-mile range. The infantryman standing on its small platform controls vertical motion and speed with motorcycle-type handlebars, guides the direction of flight by leaning in the direction he wants...
...rules for instrument (IFR) and visual (VFR) flight which were good enough when planes were few and slow, are dangerously dated with thousands of speedy private, commercial and military craft crowding the airways. And the situation will get worse with jets...
...Wolgemut are not as rewarding as they might be, but on the whole the Museum has provided a collection of great interest to students of the later middle ages and the northern renaissance, as well as to those just interested in some of the finer examples of Durer's craft...
Prince Tungi of Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...
...Wolgemut are not as rewarding as they might be, but on the whole the Museum has provided a collection of great interest to students of the later Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance, as well as those just interested in some of the finer examples of Durer's craft...