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...flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever done before. More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than...
...Captain Bill Daughaday in the 165-pound class, a Varsity wrestling team with possibilities of becoming one of the best Crimson aggregations in recent years meets Tech's grapplers this afternoon at Hangar...
...team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing...
Last year's opener with Tech, on the small floor of Hangar gym, resulted in a 29 to 24 setback for the Crimson cagemen, and they are anxious to avenge that defeat this year. M. I. T. presents a veteran quintet, but the Feslermen should be much improved over their last year's early season form...
George VI last week did something no British King before him ever did: he went to an airdrome and, in a hangar, personally decorated five members of the R. A. F. Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot...