Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia engineer named Haviland H. Platt applied for patents on a revolving-wing in 1927. has been quietly developing it ever since. A large model was designed in consultation with Professor Alexander Klemin. director of New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics. Currently the Government is closely observing the Platt tests...
Behind the working models and the showmanship there was, ready for use, the U. S. Passenger Car, 1933 Model...
Austin ("The only car that will run 40 miles on a gallon") presented only one new model, the Suburban Coupe. Capacity: two adults, two children...
...cavernous armory in Manhattan, two days last week, a hundred-odd boys of high-school age moved quietly about the floor, some carrying tiny, fragile model airplanes, others standing with heads thrown back, gaping anxiously at the roof. Up under the lofty girders, slowly and silently circled little gossamer shapes. At intervals an announcer boomed a number through a megaphone. The only other noise in the hall was an incessant metallic undertone like the sound of a score of egg-beaters. This came from a number of gadgets not unlike egg-beaters in the hands of some of the boys...
...winning model, owned by Herbert Owen of New Britain, Conn., had an enormous advantage of lightness. It weighed only .03 oz. Instead of Japanese tissue, its wing was made of "microfilm," a transparent, opalescent substance that looks something like Cellophane. It is made from a nitrocellulose fluid base (e.g. collodion, bronzing liquid, etc.) that-floats on' water in a gossamer layer, dries in a sheet about one-eighth the weight of superfine tissue. The winner was awarded the Sportsman Pilot Cup, originally posted by Sportsman Pilot (monthly) for a race which did not come off in the National...