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Rumanian-born Henri Coanda, 68, a successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
...Force, which has batted down many a flying-saucer report, has long wished (in private) that it could build one. By last week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make hallucination come true. Air Force men have inspected a Canadian mockup saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
...Russians Ahead? Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above...
...thousand chores, mostly of a monotonous type, with the relish of a youngster watching his first big-league baseball game." Mary agrees with the word "relish" but not "monotonous." Says she: "I like the diversity of subjects that we handle every day-everything from automotive stories to flying saucer-men's lectures and the occasional mur der. Best of all, perhaps, I like being on the inside of the stories that make the week's news. There is very little boring detail in editorial work, and you feel that everything you do is important...
...recent weeks, Chicken-lickens have been rubbing their heads all across the U.S. It started last month at Bellingham (pop. 34,000), in northwest Washington, not far from where the first flying saucer was sighted. Auto owners noticed pockmarks, some as small as pin heads, others as big as peanuts, on the outer surfaces of their windshields. At first the victims blamed vandals, then ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread...