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...Annapolis midshipman who spent much of his time throwing model airplanes out his dormitory window. In 1912, when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane...
...moon will be close enough to send 65O-ft. tides surging over the seas four times a year, penning U. S. inhabitants between its eastern and western mountain ranges. When this cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric...
Taking six passengers from Washington to Detroit in a trimotored Ford of Central Airlines, he got as far as Hancock, Md. when the left outboard motor exploded, tore loose from its moorings, crashed through the landing gear and plunged earthward. The other two motors sputtered, the plane vibrated heavily, all lights went out. Pilot Carmichael stuck a flashlight out the window, calmly took stock of the situation...
Those on the ground saw the white puff of his opening parachute, breathed easier. Then they held their breath for the parachute had only partly opened before tangling in the wings. Spinning head over heels, Stunter Davis plunged earthward. Groundlings waited anxiously for the second parachute to billow out. It never did. When they reached the body (see cut) the ripcord ring was still in place...
Finally he was ready for the tenth and last dive. He climbed to 10,000 ft., leveled off, jammed the stick forward. How a test pilot feels in that final dive earthward "Jimmy" Collins had described in his Satevepost article...