Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday the Empress nudged warily through ice and fog. In Quebec, where no Sunday newspapers are published, wild rumors spread, the wildest being that the Royal flotilla was dodging not ice but German submarines. By Sunday night, however, the liner had found clear weather, and steamed full speed for port. Scheduled for Monday, the elaborate welcoming ceremonies at Quebec had to be set back two days. Unwilling to slight the French population in Quebec and Montreal, Dominion officials cut the two days off Ottawa's scheduled four-day celebration. If all then went well, this would bring Their Majesties...
Unfortunately for the visitors, this aeronautical wonder was too wonderful to be shown. Suave Dr. Lewis refused to say how much it would add to the speed of airplanes but it appeared the addition would be 20% to 30% over present design...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
...Venetian blind flap, built like a wooden window shade, which gives more lift for slow take-offs and landings than any flap now flying, means that speeds can be made higher without worrying about how fast a high-speed ship will land, how much run it will need to take...
Everyone applauded. Then the Conference resumed its work, which it had agreed to speed up. The delegates had voted themselves a modest, Methodist $4 per day expense money, but even that, they discovered, would exhaust their Conference treasury by May 10. Accordingly, they resolved to finish by then. Week's work...