Word: spins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...
...model was balanced on a pin atop a long pole in the centre of the tunnel. Then an uprush of air whirled the little plane around until it was spinning free. What happened after the pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...
...automatic gyro-pilot): "To show how it could fly the plane with his hands off the controls, he was demonstrating this to a girl friend he had with him, by a little conservative lovemaking. At that moment the stabilizer went wrong and the [flying] boat went into a vicious spin, and the two were found pretty much in each other's arms, very severely injured...
...make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they oat seven or fourteen meals per week in the House dining-rooms they should pay a rate representing as nearly as possible what such a number of meals is worth...