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Last week the Bell Airacobra (P-39), already in production, was ready for its final test dive. For four days Test Pilot Andrew McDonough, on a busman's holiday from Eastern Airlines' Miami-Chicago run, had had her aloft feeling her out, making longer and faster dives as pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
...enough to keep her Allison engine warm, began to windmill. The airspeed indicator hand began to turn-350 -400. But Andy McDonough kept his eye fixed mostly on the hands of the sensitive altimeter. Around 5,000 he eased the ship out into level flight, called the field again: "Dive completed . . . returning to base." When he landed, a doctor checked him over. Nothing wrong. Mechanics checked the Airacobra for skin wrinkles, other evidences of strain. All O.K. Andy McDonough was on his way back to his airline job in Atlanta by the time technicians had checked his movie film, corrected...
...strong Brown Freshman swimming squad had too much strength for Coach Peterson's Crimson cubs and handed them a 43 to 32 defeat, their first of the year. Harvard firsts were scored by Hewes in the dive and Harting in the 200-yard breastroke. In addition, the Yardlings won the relay in 4:13.6. trimming the Bruin reserves...
Shaw McCutcheon was the class of the field in the dive with a 105 total, and Brad Patterson's 91.2 second place rating was another improved performance. Bill Drucker did a fast 100 leg in the medley and coasted in to an easy win in the 150 backstroke, with Dick Harris second...