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...other experiments, the hydro-ski has been mounted beneath the fuselage of a sleek new fighter with no flotation gear at all. In takeoffs, the fighter moves out from shallow water, its ski sliding along the bottom. As soon as it picks up speed and the ski cuts to the surface, the plane can skim over deep water for its take-off run. Once in the air, the hydro-ski can be retracted. After touching down, the pilot has to taxi fast enough for his plane to stay on the surface until he is close to beach or landing ramp...
...enough to make an old salt weep. On a cruise to the Mediterranean last summer, the sleek, grey aircraft carrier Magnificent, 14,000 fighting tons and the pride of Canada's navy, began looking like a ruddy art gallery. The radio-room walls sprouted brightly colored canvases, the shipwright shop was festooned with art, so was the barber shop...
Some of the earthbound scenes of Breaking Through seem to be slick, low-altitude drama. But the picture's breathtaking aerial shots capture much of the excitement and exaltation of flight in dazzling imagery: long shots of sleek, gleaming jets climbing and diving in magnificent, vapor-trailed trajectory or hanging suspended in space among the high, pale palaces of slow cloud; head-on close-ups of test pilots in G-suits and goggles, framed in a halo of Plexiglas...
...London's Motor Show last week, the cars that drew the biggest crowds were the racy, low-slung sport models. None got more attention than Jaguar's fast, sleek XK120, which for three years has held the world's speed record (132.6 m.p.h.) for passenger cars. But it was more than speed that made Britons admire the Jaguar; as the Manchester Guardian noted proudly, the Jaguar is "doing a roaring dollar trade." It is now one of the British motor industry's biggest dollar earners...
...sleek Jag was born in a motorcycle sidecar. Jaguar's creator is a Lancashire-born mechanic named William Lyons, 50, who in 1922 opened a small shop in Blackpool to make hand-built cycle sidecars "for the discriminating few." As he prospered, Lyons decided he could improve on Britain's towering, square-rigged auto bodies, moved to Coventry and opened the Swallow Coachbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1931, he turned out his first car, the Swallow Special (quickly known simply as the "S.S."), built on a British Standard's chassis. The Daily Mail called...