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...little research ship would be blown to dust. Two models of the Air Force's X-I . . . had blown up in launching last year . . . The pressurizing gases-helium and nitrogen-were sieved through Kotex . . . That explained why I had seen cartons of the incongruous supplies stacked in the hangar...
Objection from France. But Lufthansa is not discouraged. Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
...Brown Field, near San Diego, Convair's XFY-I "Pogo Stick" last week showed what it could do in free flight. Already dress-rehearsed in a blimp hangar (TIME, June 14), the plane now fully lived up to its billing as the Navy's first vertical-take-off fighter...
...check this theory, Farnborough built 100 small wooden models of the Comet, with parts designed to come apart. They were dropped from balloons or from the top of a hangar. At last one of them broke up in just the way that Yoke Peter did. Its center section spun down to the ground, where its fragments were distributed on the ground in the same pattern that the fragments of Yoke Peter had made on the bottom of the Mediterranean...
McGaw, a new, enormous, hangar-like structure next to Northwestern's football stadium, was built for indoor sports. At the first plenary session the 4,000-seat public section was packed solid with sweating, shirtsleeved folk, but after the first long address in German (by Dr. Edmund Schlink-see below), the spectators began to melt away...