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...three overhead rotor blades. As Noll opened the throttle, the fuel in the pods began burning in small, roaring jet gusts, expelling the hot air, spinning the rotor and lifting the aircraft off the ground. At 4,000 ft., ready for forward flight, Noll switched on the small pusher propeller, sited between the twin tail booms, and kept the rotor windmilling to supply extra lift. Coming in to land, he first slowed, then cut off the pusher, gave the rotors full power over the landing site, and set the XV1 gently to ground on its skids...
...Petal Pusher. In St. Louis, Mail Order Florist John T. Southwell was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $1,600 after federal agents discovered that the "blue rose" which had grossed him $700,000 in 18 months was a common red rose which fades to a bluish color as it dies...
...flyer named Paul Poberezny formed the Experimental Aircraft Association for do-it yourself flyers to make their own airplanes. So far, the group has 600 members spread around the U.S. who have flown 500 of their creations. One man is working on a combination plane and car with a pusher propeller and folding wings; another hopes to sell a do-it-yourself small plane...
...Pedal Pusher. In Detroit, Edwin Arnold got a court order restraining his wife Bessie Mae after he testified that she had beaten him with her slipper, made him scrub floors, forced him to take off his shoes whenever he entered the house...
...farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...