Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duration is that the shadow travels slowest at noon, fastest near the beginning and end of the eclipse day. Earth rotates eastward at about 1,040 m.p.h. at the Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just about twice that speed, so that it rapidly overtakes the terrestrial rotation. At noon, when the shadow is perpendicular, the speed is 1,060 m.p.h.; earlier and later, when the cone of darkness impinges at an angle, it goes faster-depending on the acuteness of the angle...
...China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, L. I., for two Seversky amphibians plus manufacturing rights. The Seversky amphibian holds the world amphibian speed record of 230.4 m.p.h...
...week started with the shooting down, by Rightists near Bilbao, of a French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting to its top speed of 230 m.p.h. and the pilot's ability to dive into clouds to get it past the Rightists, who had given official warning time & again...
...Modern air engines have cowlings which both improve streamlining and help cool the engine by concentrating the air taken in at the front. Engines need cooling most when taking off, for then they are generally turning over at full power. But air-speed is slow then, so the stream of cooling air is not so effective as it is later when the plane is flying faster but when the engine needs less cooling because it is throttled down. To meet these shifting conditions the NACA has devised a shifting cowling with two nose slots. Air enters around the propeller...
...Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...