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...came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...
...Rommel started his offensive last month, he seemed weak in the air; correspondents cabled exultantly about R.A.F. superiority. It turned out that Rommel had plenty of planes. The British were also confident that their ground forces matched the enemy. One thing Rommel did, apparently, was to let the British exhaust themselves winning their "victories," then throw in his reserves to take the real victory. Moreover, he changed the pattern of desert warfare by stepping up the role of artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel...
...Facing aircraft cylinder heads and other exposed steel parts with aluminum to prevent corrosion by weather, salt sea spray and engine heat (as in exhaust manifolds...
...Heath gives a complete, two-hour medical examination featuring the usual knee-tapping and blood testing, but with special emphasis on medical history. Dr. Lucien Brouha at the Fatigue Lab is known by many undergraduates as the operator of the seven-mile an hour treadmill, which is designed to exhaust the student. Strapped to the student's chest are electrodes, which amplify his heart beats and record them upon a moving tape. In the first of two sessions at the laboratory, the metabolism and the respiratory pattern of each student are taken, after he has gone breakfastless and has rested...
...third calamity of the trip came when the vigilant New York police spotted a leaky exhaust on one of the vehicles, and benched it. So the 60-odd men and their baggage piled into the one remaining wagon, capacity 35, and inched through a blizzard...