Word: tails
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Crackerjack. Lanky Stanley Musial who started his career as a pitcher, is another crackerjack at bat. Last year he played in three different leagues, outhit the ultimate batting champion in each. Brought to St. Louis for a trial at the tail end of last season, he hit a sensational .426 in twelve games-during the Cardinals' hectic homestretch duel with the Dodgers. This year, although handicapped by a colossal pre-season buildup that would put the Indian sign on the most phlegmatic 21-year-old, Musial is hitting at a .315 clip...
...sensational advance in industrial technique was revealed last week and immediately opened the way for major advances in the aviation industry. The new technique: arc-welding of magnesium. Result: the further development of the so-called flying wing-a weird, batlike plane with no tail, no fuselage and an extraordinary efficiency (TIME, Oct. 27). Some other results...
...make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence designers believe the flying wing can either
...Army & Navy land-based planes flew out from Midway and Hawaii to take a terrible toll of Jap carriers (TIME, June 22). Most bombers deliberately ignored the accompanying Jap battleships, went directly for the vulnerable carriers. When the carriers were sunk, the whole huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu and Kiska harbor...
...rocket bombs, which are said to be as destructive as a large-caliber shell, are slung from the underside of the wings, aimed by pointing planes directly at their targets. Self-propelled, the rockets trail a stream of sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb...