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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NACA's research director, Dr. George William Lewis, was proudest of a new wing developed during the past year. Approximately one-half the drag, i.e., the speed-killing characteristic, of the modern airplane is caused by its wings. Most of the wing drag is caused by air friction along...
Dedicated during the day by NACA's scholarly Dr. Edward P. Warner were two new wind tunnels which are now in operation. In both, NACA engineers work under a pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one...
For more than 50 years New York's Roosevelt ladies, Republican and Democrat alike, have bought their clothes at Manhattan's Arnold Constable. (Onetime Department Manager William Kramer once paddywhacked fractious young Teddy Roosevelt, who tagged along with his mother.) Since 1929, all Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's...
Yerkes has the world's biggest refractor (a telescope equipped with a lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert...
Stock of Boeing Airplane last week sold at $22, down 35% from $35 last January; Consolidated Aircraft sold at $20¾, down 19% from $25½; Douglas Aircraft at $63, down 20% from $79. Aircraft stocks as a group were down a little more than 14% from their 1939 highs...