Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chateau de Cande and explained apologetically that he had. been . forced not only to forbid any member of the Royal Family attending the wedding, but any British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke of Windsor's friends...
...freeflight tunnel is a cylinder which may be tilted at a normal airplane glide angle. On the bottom rests a small model of a commercial plane which is to be tested for such things as controllability. As the air rushes into the tunnel, the model takes off, flies completely free. Trailing from it is a thread-like copper wire through which the operator can control ailerons and rudders, see how the ship obeys them...
...engine by concentrating the air taken in at the front. Engines need cooling most when taking off, for then they are generally turning over at full power. But air-speed is slow then, so the stream of cooling air is not so effective as it is later when the plane is flying faster but when the engine needs less cooling because it is throttled down. To meet these shifting conditions the NACA has devised a shifting cowling with two nose slots. Air enters around the propeller hub, flows back over the cylinders, then is turned forward and issues from...
...struts and wires which characterized old planes have been removed, the wing has increased from one-third of total drag to about half. To reduce this the NACA experimented with the friction set up by rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...
Tonight at 7:45 o'clock, Arthur Steinberg '38 will give a violin recital at the Music Building. He will be accompanied at the plane by Leonard Bernstein...