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Died. Vice Admiral Ralph Andrew Ofstie, 59, bemedaled onetime hot Navy pilot (he set three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in...
Died. Sir Charles Richard Fairey, 69, burly, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) British yachtsman who founded (1916) the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., built seaplanes and fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw...
Seaplanes have important advantages: they can take off from water runways that cost nothing and may be as long as necessary. If they stay near some sizable body of water, they have a chance to make emergency landings without crackup.
In the early years of aviation, these advantages were important. Long airstrips on land were few. and the unreliability of early engines made seaplanes desirable over oceans. When airstrips grew longer and engines more reliable, seaplanes almost disappeared. To keep their propellers out of the water, their engines had to...
The two submarines are only the be ginning of a whole new atomic Navy. At last week's launching, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas declared: "This fiscal year the Navy will have eight nuclear-powered submarines in being or under construction, and in rapid succession thereafter, many others . . . Nuclear propulsion...