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...steeper-pitched propellers have been mounted, air screws which will take a bigger bite of air, increase the Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large...
...general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower landing speeds, steeper landing angles...
...return to where I started from. It is a crisp January day in a beautiful but too little known city of Canada; the thermometer says ten below zero; the snow is two feet deep and as dry as tinder; the scene is the side of a hill, steeper than any sensible being on a "Yankee" sled would dare to go down...