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...kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt he had been thinking about for a long time...
...seasons a team of Cornell entomologists virtually lived with flies, doing their field work mostly in buzzing cowsheds. Like consumer-preference researchers, they tried to find what sort of perch flies like to settle upon. After long observation and many trials they decided that fin. strips of metal screening tacked to the ceiling are what flies like best...
Shark's Fins & Joysticks. In appearance, the Navy's first SSN (Submarine Nuclear) will look much like an ordinary Tang-class sub (TIME, July 9), only bigger and chubbier. It will have the same streamlined gun-free deck, the same sharklike fin rising in the center to house its radar, periscope and snorkel (which is a convenience, not a necessity, on an atomic submarine). Inside, the SSN will open up an entirely new world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing...
...looked like a cross between a whale and a shark. Gone was the familiar deck gun and the round conning tower, with its crest of periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically from pockets at their sides, and they could dive at a steep 40° angle. Fast and silent as barracuda...
Harvard captain Ollie Iselin, will be unable to race because of an attack of the fin...