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...Pinta let down for the landing, the right wheel of the tricycle landing gear stuck. Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa tried unsuccessfully to dislodge it with the emergency hand pump. Captain Bengoa made several low passes over the field so the ground crew could inspect the wheel by searchlight. Then the Spanish flyers took the plane upstairs to decide what...
...midnight just 9 days, 15 hrs., 5 min. and 10 sec. after clearing the No. 2 buoy in Los Angeles harbor, the Morning Star glided like a ghost ship into a searchlight beam off Diamond Head. Once more she was first to finish; she had trimmed 19 hours off her old record. Said Rheem: "I wouldn't want to try and break that one." Then, as before, he settled back to wait and see who had really...
...struck by a hair-thin beam of electrons. The electron beam scans back and forth, covering the whole surface in a small fraction of a second. The spot of light that it creates is projected on the scene by the lens, scanning it like the beam of a small searchlight. There are no moving parts except electrons and light, so the spot can move as fast as necessary...
...Lenin, arriving at the Finland station in the famous "sealed train" in the middle of the night while a band blares the Marseillaise and a searchlight knifes the sky and startles the crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...
Instead of transmitting on direct line-of-sight, the Bell-M.I.T. method shoots a beam into the sky like a giant searchlight. A searchlight beam passing through the air is visible many miles away although the light itself may be behind a hill. A microwave beam can be "seen" in much the same way. If it is very powerful...