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...Propellor-driven plane rides, nauseating bus-trips, broken hot tubs and cold showers follow as the owner makes it as hard as possible for the team...
...other submarine entry is a propellor-driven job with twin rudders. While expected to be somewhat slower than Milgram's, its directional orientation is likely to be more reliable...
Another investigation he took part in had equally obvious immediate practical results. It concerned the cord "pigtails" one still sees adorning the wings of various propellor driven planes. The subject under study was "precipitation static" - an electrical charge picked up when a plane passes through certain kinds of rain or snow storms. These charges, pilots found, interfered with radio communication. Since electricity tends to concentrate itself on pointed surfaces, such as radio antennas, the investigators suggested the pigtails as a harmless discharge point for any excess charge...
George Van Angelis '56, until two weeks ago a member of Adams House, killed himself last night at the Worcester Airport by throwing himself into the propellor of an incoming plane...
...Angelis had apparently been arguing with his father, when he jumped over the fence onto the airstrip, and walked into the right propellor of the plane, which was taxiing about 200 yards from the administration building...