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...Guiberson Diesel engine which permits the propeller to turn freely in a glide while the engine is throttled or dead? "free wheeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Roll Call | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/26/1932 | See Source »

...Cakes glide on to the table with dessert. On the dark mahogany there is candy. Cigarette sales mount. Cocktails tinkle in the glistening shaker. Movies, dances, theatres, good food, bad food, candles, papers, photographs, fine cars, feathers, spats, pearls, music, cameras, Easter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/26/1932 | See Source »

...meadow on the Cote d'Azur I have an appointment with Pegasus. Pegasus is the name of my airplane. It has a russet body and white wings. . . . Sometimes drunk with petrol it leaps through the air like its brother of old, but in the night it can glide at will like a phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: De Basis' Valedictory | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash! . . . The fuselage of the Vales' plane, with its two occupants uninjured was wedged tight in the branches of a tree. Wings & motor were strewn about. The plane on the ground, which had decoyed Pilot Vale into a landing, was one which a youth was building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Decoy | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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