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...puffers, but two other teams of British aeronauts as well, were attempting to accomplish what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According to requirements spelled out by the Royal Aeronautical Society...
Wimpenny, a De Havilland aerodynamicist, has been experimenting with man-powered flight ever since the '40s. Two years ago, after Kremer offered his prize money, Wimpenny organized the Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club and designed Puffin. Spars were made from spruce. The plane's framework was covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands...
Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...
...father owns a bakery in Arlington, Va., is an ancient history major at Columbia, got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He is a member of the steering committee of the senior class, is director of classical music for the Columbia radio station, heads the Ted Kremer honor society which devotes itself to social service...
Denying the charges. Major Emil A. Kremer USAF, associate professor of Air Science and Tactics said. "The question of paying the dollar has no effect on a cadet's standing in the unit at any time. The charges in the letter are probably the result of over-zealous salesmanship by a cadet on the dance committee...