Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a busy egg beater. On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy...
Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...
...through the first half, while Burditt fidgeted nervously with the mask that he wore to protect a broken nose, the Crimson offense functioned in low gear as the team concentrated on harrassing the Princeton sharpshooters, Bill Vogt and Jack Palmer...
This week it looked as if Washington would give the escort program a real green light. It was too late to stew over past mistakes. The real challenge was to business-for on the success or failure of gear maker and instrument maker may rest the outcome of the Battle of the Atlantic...
...located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...