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...Other press names for Louis: Brown Bomber, Ring Robot, Alabama Assassin, Dead-Pan Joe, Sepia Slasher, Dark Angel, Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Wildcat Warrior...
...Stevenson rat is impervious to all such lures and hindrances. Resembling a three-wheeled roller skate loaded with small motors, electromagnets and switches, the robot is set on a track containing twelve forks at each of which a wrong turn leads to a dead-end. The robot is first set to take the turn to the right at every fork. When this proves to be wrong and results in a bump against the dead-end, the "rat" goes into reverse, backs up past the fork, goes forward again, taking the correct left turn. This resets the controls in such...
...Contra Costa deputies plumed themselves for several days on the astuteness of their "robot ghost" idea until the Mexican Consul lodged a strong protest against such third degree methods...
Inside the huge cabin the six stalwart young men in blue uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...