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...Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...High-speed tunnels, spinning tunnels, atmospheric tunnels, variable-density tunnels and propeller research tunnels are old stuff. This year two more were added to the list-a freeflight tunnel and a gust tunnel...
...gust tunnel is important because all airplanes experience their maximum loads when they encounter sudden gusts or "bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
...earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such violent sun storms will probably recur every 27 days (time for the sun to revolve once) until some time in 1939. That year will mark a height of solar activity which recurs every 23 years...
...gust of wind sterte up behind...