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...race settled down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker on the corners, but invariably lost ground on the longest straightaway, a 6,000-ft. runway where Kimberly gunned his slim, low-hung speedster up to 150 m.p.h...
...Gander Airport in northeastern Newfoundland has replaced the seaport of Halifax as Canada's front door. More than 300,000 transatlantic air travelers landed there in 1952; many get their first and only impression of Canada at the field. Gander's 8,600-ft. main runway, its instrument-landing equipment, and the high-intensity runway lights now being installed make it technically one of the world's most up-to-date airports. But in the creature comforts by which most tourists form their opinions of a port of call, Gander Airport is as outmoded as a whaling...
...grounded aircraft will flap in the wind unless they are kept rigidly locked. Until planes got too big, it was easy enough to walk around outside one after a landing and slip wooden battens over the control surfaces-and to take them off before taxiing out to the runway. But the wings and tails of many modern transports cannot be reached from the ground; rudders present so much surface to a cross wind, moreover, that pilots often find it necessary to keep them locked while taxiing. release them just before a takeoff. Most big planes, as a result, now have...
...only possible to conclude that the crash was the result of tragic negligence on the part of the pilot. He had gone down the runway with rudder and elevators still locked up. The plane took off. and went into a steep climb. In the minute after it was airborne, probably the pilot tried to get the nose down, found to his horror that the controls were rigid, perhaps even grabbed for the knob at his right knee. But by then the Globemaster had stalled, had crashed and was being hammered into blazing wreckage on the hard desert floor...
...verse he had written for the occasion). As he walked toward a waiting car with General James Van Fleet, some 50 soldiers who had been waiting clustered around him. One called out, "Give us a blessing, Father." While the cardinal murmured the short blessing, they knelt quietly on the runway...