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...Inventor Waterman, previously known for his experiments with a low-wing tailless monoplane called the Waterman Whatsit, has produced as his new model a high-wing ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin has windows of a flexible fireproof fibre known as plastacelle. Like the Hammond, it has a Menasco motor and pusher propeller at the rear, a third wheel in front. Because...
...pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down for the nose dive and pullout...
...saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
...faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy's last dirigible was rapidly going to pieces in midair. No. 2 gas cell popped open, then No. 9. Girders began snapping like so many pretzels. One rudder gave way and the whole stern seemed to crumple like a paper bag squashed by a playful child. By the time Commander Wiley ordered the radio operator to send out an SOS, the Macon, sick to death, was settling down toward the ocean at the rate...
...larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed: 5-9 m. p. h. Price: $175-$750. One has a bow-rudder...