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...Bureau of Standards told the American Chemical Society that aviation's fire hazard could be conquered by a new kind of airplane "dope" which is noncombustible even when covered with burning gasoline. Content of the new "dope": cellulose acetate, boric acid, borax. Significance: possible revival of fabric instead of all-metal construction...
...Angeles' stern, wrenched off part of the flatcar, left it dangling 30 ft. high, ripped up rails like so much spaghetti. Trundled back into her hangar by an emergency ground crew, the old "L. A." was found to be suffering from a dented gondola, broken struts, torn fabric. Newshawks found Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl far from sad. "The wind did the Navy a favor," he explained. "This is one of the very things we are studying. . . . The L. A. can take...
...flying-squirrels and bats, compared his findings with glider principles, began working on a set of wings in his spare time while traveling with an air circus. Few weeks ago he completed his flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...
Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...
...show that its new "Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief reason for the venthole...