Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flight of the Birds. To the Germans, dreamers of efficient dreams, Ford had always been a special hero. One of the innumerable books about him (which usually found a place of honor near Mein Kampf) declared: "It is magnificent how the Aryan, the Teuton, the Saxon, the true masterman comes to life in Ford...
...Bird. The scrotum system does not work with birds, because it might cause supersonic disturbances during flight. Birds' testes must be "faired into" the neatly streamlined body. But many birds breed in warm weather, even though their blood may get hotter than 42° C (107.6° F). How do they do it? Have their spermatogenic cells learned to work at high temperatures...
...with Town Hall Tonight, that Fred really got on the radio beam. Not long after, he latched on to the biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...
...helicopter* stripped to essentials: little more than a seat, landing wheels and two horizontal rotors revolving in opposite directions. The power source is a 35 h.p. engine with two opposed cylinders like an outboard motor. According to Mr. Pentecost, "the required blade adjustments to render typical three dimensional helicopter flight have been coordinated into a single control handle placed conveniently in front of the operator...
Especially annoying, according to Metcalf, was the pair of steps leading from the ground floor up the first flight of stairs. "We tried everything to make these two steps safe," he said; "we sand-papered them, marked them with black lines, flooded them with spotlights. But people still fell." Now, under the new setup, a ramp covered with the special cement material has been set in over the stairs. If unsatisfactory, it can be lifted out intact...