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...straight runway, the professor reasons, is fine if it is long enough. But often, even on a very long runway, a faltering engine or iced-up wings can dump an airplane in crack-up territory beyond the airport fence. A circular runway, on the other hand, is infinitely long because an airplane, tethered to its center, can fly around it indefinitely. The pilot need not fear "running out of runway." Even if his engine dies after the takeoff, his airplane can circle safely to the ground again...
This year he tried again with his new light airplane, an Ercoupe. At first he wanted to use frozen Lake Mendota, near Madison, for his circular runway, but the city council said no. Last fortnight he set up his apparatus on the ice of Lake Kegonsa, a safe distance from Madison. The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly. A double strand of woven nylon, 400 ft. long, led to a quick-release fixture under a wing of the airplane...
Lunch on the Mountain. At the last minute, on request of the Chinese Nationalists, Dulles added Formosa to his schedule. His Constellation made several passes at the field before the pilot was able to find a way down to the runway through the mist. Foreign Minister George Yeh met Dulles at planeside, escorted him to Taipei's City Hall for formal signing of the treaty that binds the U.S. to defend Formosa and the Pescadores from attack. Then Dulles was driven out to Grass Mountain, 20 minutes from Taipei, for luncheon with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang...
...morning next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
...which the youngster can fly around the field, and when he gets a bit better take his girl friend up too, must remain with us . . . We must keep the airplane for pleasure, for an afternoon's fun which does not need two or three thousand yards of runway, control towers and controls, and all the paper work that makes life so intolerable these days for the private aviator. Give me a field with a circle in the middle, and let us still enjoy those things which have almost disappeared with the biplane and the open cockpit...