Word: rolleghem
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...Belgian Army major named R. van Rolleghem produced a miniature airplane fuselage composed of a secret material which looked like mica-coated asbestos. In the cockpit, in place of pilot & observer, he lodged two white mice. Then he ignited the fuel in the machine's nose. The terrified mice were not even singed...
Next Major van Rolleghem lighted a fierce fire beneath a full fuel tank made of his secret substance. Tank & contents remained intact. He put a box, containing a letter, into a fuel fire. The letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...
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