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...padded steel clips to block his nostrils. In his hands he carried a 44-lb. spear gun, weighted with an extra 4.4 Ibs. of lead. Bucher. poised on the rail of the small ship bobbing in the rough water, was aiming to become the first man ever to "skin-dive" (i.e., without the aid of artificial breathing apparatus) deeper than...
Late yesterday afternoon, Martin was "out for the season" and Yale hopes took a nose dive. In a scrimmage against the junior varsity he arm-tackled a runner and dislocated his left shoulder...
...soaring, British-made movie about supersonic aviation, gets off to a flying start. In a prologue before the credit titles come on the screen, a World War II Spitfire, cavorting above the English Channel, is almost torn to bits as it plunges into a wracking flat-out power dive and hits the turbulent shock waves of the sound barrier. The picture then goes on to the main body of its subject: the postwar conquest of faster-than-sound flight, which turned out to be the most significant event in the history of aviation since the Wright brothers took...
...Flight's the Thing. More than 100 falconers (a generic term applied to all those who hunt with birds) from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain had entered the trials. They brought birds of half a dozen varieties, ranging from peregrines, which dive at pheasant and pigeons at speeds as high as 200 m.p.h., to a somewhat elderly eagle, especially trained (for Hermann Goring) as a fox killer...
...When the attacking party reached the target area, the AD hung back out of flak range, sent the robot on in. The Hellcat's camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow bigger & bigger on his TV screen. When the screen went blank, the control man knew that the robot and its camera, the bomb and the bridge had all blown up together...