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...like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic because the Greenwood-Yates ribbing is laid entirely in curves...
Geodetic construction is used on no other American plane, but Britain's geodetic Vickers Wellesley bombers are among the finest in the world, hold the longdistance flight record of 7,162 miles. By using spruce, of which Oregon has plenty, instead of metal weaving strips, Greenwood-Yates have cut the cost of frame material for a single airplane to $50, are able to build it lighter than with steel...
...Grand National Steeplechase in England last week, 250,000 people swarmed over the vast reach of meadow south of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Aintree, where 37 fine horses faced the grueling 4-mile, 856-yard, twice-around chase over 30 time-honored jumps of thorn, gorse, fir, spruce and water, each hoary with legend...
Kilstar was jumping like a horse in a hunting print. Over the treacherous right-angle Canal Turn and past Valentine's spruce-bunkered brook it was Kilstar and Under Bid. Together they cleared the 15-foot water jump in front of the stands, and roared into the second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring...
...Dartmouth's grey, veteran Track Coach Harry Hillman, onetime Olympic runner, the result has since been more headache than help. Year after year on the springy spruce track, his athletes stepped off more remarkable times in practice, were beaten in unremarkable time in competition elsewhere. Last March, to find out just how much faster Dartmouth's track was than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with...