Word: gadgetized
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...aircraft engineers, whose job nowadays consists mainly of finding ways to prevent the flying machine from over powering its human users, announced last week that they had found a solution to this little problem : a gadget which enables a pilot to control a heavy plane as easily as a child steers its bicycle. The device, called a "formation stick," has an arm rest and a pistol-gripped lever, which can be flicked in any direction by a finger touch. Electronics does the rest : the stick's motion is converted into an amplified electrical signal which operates the motors which...
...mighty gadget for aircraft, good in peace as well as war, was taken out of military wraps last week. It is an automatic navigation instrument that helps a flyer to know where he is at any instant, even in bad weather. The machine, officially known as the Air Position Indicator, but called "The Brain" by its makers, greatly reduces the amount of calculation a navigator needs to make...
...indicator efficiently, a navigator needs occasional glimpses of the ground or, over the sea, a celestial sight, for checking wind drift. But the gadget is sometimes surprisingly accurate by itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...
Subscription Radio (subscribers pay 5? a day to rent a gadget for their radios; with it, they can tune in a station which carries no commercials; without it, anyone tuning the same frequency hears only a "pig squeal"). FCC has not made up its mind whether this is "technically feasible" now; meanwhile, no frequencies...
Most of these changes will not take effect until the war is over, and manufacture of civilian radio and television equipment can be resumed. FCC wanted manufacturers, station owners and gadget buyers to know well in advance where they stand, so they can plan accordingly. The Commission will listen to objections to its air-rationing plan, beginning on St. Valentine...