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HYDROFOIL USE may increase as Grumman Aircraft, largest U.S. amphibious plane manufacturer, acquires half-interest (for about $250,000) in Long Island's Dynamic Developments, Inc., a hydrofoil research organization. Hydrofoil (a finlike device) operates in water like airplane wings, using hydrodynamic pressures to lift hull so that boat or seaplane rides on stilts with minimal resistance, making possible faster speed, smoother ride, faster takeoff...
Long Count. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett naval air station, the emergency word was passed. Lieut. Commander Frederick J. Hancox, a Coast Guard ready rescue pilot, was jangled from his bed. With his four crewmen, he scrambled for his twin-engined Grumman Albatross, was airborne at 1:02 a.m. Grinding out over the sea, Hancox called into his lip mike: "Hello Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from...
Murphy 4, Grumman 3, Black 2, Hinchcliff, Temison, Golas...
...Chance Vought's F8U Crusader and Grumman's F11F Tiger, the Navy's newest jets. Both are relatively light, have sharply swept wings and needle-nosed fuselages. The F8U is powered by a Pratt & Whitney J-57, the F11F by a Curtiss-Wright J-65. Speed of the F11F: supersonic in level flight. Speed of the F8U: about 1,050 m.p.h...
...redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair's new F-102 not only eased through the sound barrier, but flew 100 m.p.h. faster than anyone expected. The area rule, applied to Grumman's F11F and Chance Vought's F8U, helped them both to supersonic speeds...