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...fog-topped Alleghenies have been the chief obstacle to a direct air passenger service between New York and Chicago. Last week National Air Transport, doubtless spurred by the opening of Transcontinental & Western Air's coast-to-coast line (TIME, Nov. 3), announced passenger service to begin Dec. 1 over its radio-marked mail route from New York via Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago. In trimotored Fords, streamlined and otherwise "cleaned-up" to cruise at 125 m.p.h., passengers and mail will make the westward flight in eight hours. Boosted along by prevailing winds, the eastbound planes should take only...
...through to drop the great Yale backs, and Quarterback Trix Bennett who played without a rest, who scored the touchdown that put Princeton ahead at the half, who failed by two inches only to get over the first down that would have meant another score and victory in the fog and rain, in the last minute of play, on Yale's five-yard line. The touchdown the Yale substitutes had made on a long pass across the goal line in the third period was still good. Yale 10, Princeton...
Infra-Red & Fog...
Will TIME please explain, for the benefit of the unschooled, how infra-red rays, which are invisible, can aid fog beacons, airfield lights? (TIME, Sept...
Light can pick its way through fog particles when the particles (water drops) are not greater in diameter than the wavelength of the light. Thus the longer wavelengths, like infrared, are the most penetrating. Since infra-red is invisible, special detectors are necessary to pick up the rays. Often used is the thermocouple or electric thermometer...