Word: tailes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talent on the Table. Daniel never did very well at school; for a while his family wondered what would become of him. Then one day when he was about 17, Daniel put beside his father's plate a turnip whittled to resemble a frog, in tail coat and trousers. "This," the judge exclaimed, "really looks like talent...
...white-faced relatives arrived, CAB field inspectors probed in the wreckage, interviewed eyewitnesses and searched the country round about for an explanation of the crash. They soon found a part of the answer. A quarter of a mile from the crash they found pieces of the plane's tail surfaces. Almost certainly they had been torn off in flight. What had shorn them off? CAB inspectors were not yet ready to say at week's end. Many an airplane pilot guessed that a propeller had failed, that a blade had hurtled back and cut into the tail surfaces...
...Tallahassee, paunchy, gag-loving Legislator P. Guy Crews introduced a bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida-if they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
...into Lake Union in Seattle, killing the pilot and a Civil Aeronautics Administration man. Two days later, Coast Guard Pilot David Gershowitz was showing off his Sikorsky HO51 before 250 high-school kids at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, when he swooped too low, pulled up too quickly. The tail rotor hit the ground and broke off. The helicopter belly-crashed in orange flames as Pilot Gershowitz rolled to safety...
...helicopter can "throw" a rotor blade, with immediately disastrous results. (This may have been what happened at Seattle and Providence.) The small tail rotor can and sometimes does come off, or get damaged. Engine failure by itself is not too serious, since a helicopter with a dead rotor acts like an autogiro and windmills down to earth...