Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goggled against the stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved...
...Smaller boats may race in classes for larger boats. Winner in Class A (350 sq. ft. of sail) was The Fritz, a $2,000 craft, holder of the trophy donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1904, owned by Fred Jungbluth of Madison, Wis., piloted by Carl Bernard. Its best speed over the 12-mile windward-leeward course was 31 min. 51 sec. Class B (250 ft.) was won by Su-Jac III, Pilot H. V. Fitzcharles of Lake Geneva, Wis. Class C (175 ft.): Holy Smoke III, Pilot Don Campbell of Delavan, Wis. Skeeter winner: Gale, Pilot Harry...
...auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie's 1¼ miles at 107 m.p.h. at Red Bank in 1885 or Haze's reputed two miles on the Hudson at 120 m.p.h., a skeeter, like any well-designed ice boat, can attain a speed almost twice the velocity of the wind it is sailed...
...pair of pedals geared to two propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
...engines, models, meteorological balloons, flashing beacons, wind-tunnels, irstruments, parachutes and uniforms, several drew special notice. Displayed for the first time was the world's first single-blade propeller-looking like half an ordinary wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit...