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A few months later he was back in Paris and playing wingback for an army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the...
Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste...
This week the Air Force released a rather sketchy description of a sort of hybrid of the old & new: Pratt & Whitney's Wasp Major-VDT. Basically, it is the 28-cylinder, 3,500-h.p. Wasp Major used in the Air Force's B50 bombers. Combined with a "variable...
The discharge opening can be varied in size to get the best division of exhaust energy between supercharging and jet thrust. The result is an engine with 4,000 (instead of 3,500) h.p., without proportionate increase in weight. The Air Force intends to use the hybrid in its newest...
Coming here in 1916 from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Del Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore year for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and was given his degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island...