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...there was a hole where his tail came through...
Arresting gear-wire cables snagged by a long hook dangling from a plane's tail-will be mounted across the landing flight path, as usual. But the new, angled deck* will not need the wire barrier that once cut across the Antietam to keep a bad landing from becoming a disaster. Without that barrier, planes that missed the arresting gear were almost certain to damage others on the deck. Now, a pilot who overshoots the mark will have a chance to go around again. He can drag low across the landing area without crashing into the wings of parked...
GREAT FALLS, MONT, (goal: $100,000) mounted a big red plywood rooster on the marquee of a department store. Each $20,000 raised supplied the bird with one feather for its tail...
...Navy Minister, then as a member of the War Advisory Council, where he recaptured some of his old voice. Said he to a delegation of war manufacturers who complained of the shortage of copper wire: "What do you want me to do about it? Spin it out of my tail like a spider?" He saw his New Guinea policy vindicated, and lived on to witness the collapse of world relations more threatening than that following Versailles...
...Tall Tail. In Maysville...