Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formation. There is not much conversation on the way. . . . You know the time of arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between ships but you know how the others feel. . . . And then you're in it. Black puffs of smoke begin breaking...
...save the high-quality steel normally used for such precision instruments, and to speed inspection, some of these gauges are now being rough molded of glass by Corning Glass Works and A. H. Heisey & Co., and finished by instrument makers. Glass gauges do not rust, need not be greased when idle (thus avoiding cleaning before use), are not corroded by perspiration or chemical vapors. Glass is lighter than steel, is less affected by the heat of an inspector's hands. Its transparency is an aid in positioning in the delicate handling necessary in such operations. Once the molds...
...supine at the bottom of his dive. This posture change keeps the pilot's blood supply from being pulled away from his brain at dive's end. At the same time the mechanism relieves the pilot of control, turning the plane over to an automatic gyroscopic instrument. When the plane has leveled off, the pilot is returned to a sitting position, ready to take control...
...Joseph M. Gordon, fluorescent and luminescent products consultant of New York, has made the use of black light for night flying,† now usually confined to instrument-panel illumination, easily practical for all members of a bomber's crew...
George Kenney was raised (to a height of 5 ft. 6 in.) in Brookline, Mass. He studied civil engineering at M.I.T., but left after three years to become an instrument man for Quebec & Saguenay Railroad. Then he became a civil engineer and a contractor. In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps as a private. He learned to fly under Bert Acosta, who was later to achieve fame as a transatlantic pilot. His first three landings were all dead stick, but he was notably successful once he got to France. Twice he was shot down. He was credited with...