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...feels. . . . You taxi out for takeoff. In a few minutes you are in the air and taking your position in the formation. There is not much conversation on the way. . . . You know the time of arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between...
Before the flight recorder was introduced, test temperatures and stresses were jotted down by the pilot from a few relatively inaccurate dashboard instruments. Plane builders thought they were lucky if a pilot managed to get eight or nine readings in five minutes-correct to the nearest 10 or 15 degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
...Thermals. The school is in a mountain-surrounded piece of desert, hot enough to fry the traditional egg on a glider's duralumin fuselage. But the heated air rises, forming the welcome "thermals" which keep a glider aloft. The special glider dashboard instrument is a variometer, which shows a pilot whether he is in one of these upward thermals or in a downward air current...
Sleight. In Detroit John Fletcher Jones was arrested for driving 48 miles an hour with one hand while he shaved himself with an electric razor plugged into the dashboard...
...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...