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...finally been solved by British scientists, though Planemaker De Havilland will not announce the findings until the inquiry is formally completed next month. Rumored cause: the intense pressures of high-speed, high-altitude flight caused the metal in the fuselage to "fatigue" and the planes split open in midair, killing...
...Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella, whose image in bridal white or sensual black hovered across the skies of his paintings for years...
There was a delay: the Communists had dug 8-ft. trenches across the roadway; they had totally removed the approaches to a couple of bridges, which were left resting on their supports in midair. The French brought up bulldozers and 200 sweating Communist prisoners to repair the road, much as the Communists also use "volunteers" when the French planes knock out their supply routes. At midday the column got moving again, past a sign that read: DON'T KILL. DON'T RAPE. DON'T BURN. DON'T ARREST YOUNG PEOPLE. At 1 p.m. our advance elements...
...build one. By last week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make hallucination come true. Air Force men have inspected a Canadian mockup saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
MCDONNELL Aircraft Corp. grounded its Demon jet fighters for which the Navy has placed large orders, while it investigates three test-flight accidents. One plane exploded in midair, another landed with a dead burner, and a third had a fire in the tail section, all in nine days. Pilots escaped serious injury...