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...adventures the honest simplicity of a child's dreams, Winsor Jr. has compromised with the "Buck Rogers" school of Jules Verne adventure. Thus the new series has Nemo accidentally shot sky-high from a circus cannon, takes him toward "another planet" where propeller-driven men called "gyro-scouts" broadcast news of his approach from their radio helmets. Flip & Impie fly out to meet him in an airplane...
...Little Nemo is here, he's back with us again-Hurrah!" cries a gyro-scout...
...burst valve, chief topic of conversation on the Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia. She and the Rex were built...
...pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...
...Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers between Boston and New Orleans. Differing from bright predecessors only in size, the monster Monticello searchlight is the latest creation of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor of gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March 30, 1925, Nov. 1, 1926). At Scott Field, Ill., there is a Sperry light which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When...