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...Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata, 39, had tried vainly to feather the prop, i.e., to still it by turning its blades into the air stream. With the engine dead, the prop was windmilling loosely...
Outboard & Inboard. But the heaviest buying was in the vast array of smaller inboard cruisers, outboards and utility runabouts. Despite increasing costs, boatmakers have held prices to last year's level, and the show had something for every bankroll. Besides the inboard cruisers, twelve boatyards showed off new, inexpensive, outboard cabin cruisers at prices between $1,300 and $2,500. The cruisers, up to 23 ft. long, can sleep two, do 20 m.p.h. with two motors on the stern. For penny-pinching do-it-yourselfers, who knocked together 30% of the 300,000 pleasure boats built...
Power Afloat. An inboard marine engine that its makers say delivers more power per pound than any other small marine engine was put on sale by Aerojet-General Corp.. Cincinnati, bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine weighs 160 Ibs.. develops 26.5 h.p.. and can push a 20-ft. boat, with four adults, at 30 m.p.h. Price...
Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
...iron bird they were looking for was Pan American World Airways' Constellation Great Republic, New York-bound from Johannesburg. It had made routine stops at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, and Accra, on the Gold Coast. At Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger...