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...conversation of a plane's crew for ten hours, and at the same time keep a running record of pressure, altitude, vertical acceleration, air speed, direction (taken from the plane's instruments), and communications from the ground. Called the Nadar, it is fire-and crashproof...
...gadflies that made official Washington miserable in World War I was the crackpot inventor, buzzing with mosquitoey ideas for winning the war-schemes for crashproof airplanes, inescapable torpedoes, mole-burrowing bombs...
...will be issued Part I of the Aeronautical Safety Code sponsored by the Bureau of Standards and Society of Automotive Engineers. If its provisions are faithfully followed, accidents and their effects will be minimized. An explosion such as that at Croydon would probably be avoided by the use of "crashproof" tanks which the code calls for, and by placing the tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening...