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...time to use a rifle brought along to puncture the balloons in an emergency. With Mingalone disappearing in a rain cloud at 2,500 ft., frantic Cameraman Coolidge and Father Mullen piled into their auto, dashed toward Saco where Mingalone seemed to be heading. Two miles from the take-off their hopes rose as they sighted Balloonist Mingalone scudding along 600 ft. above. Rain had soaked his clothes, brought the balloons down-to 600 ft. Rifleman Mullen jumped from the car, chanced a shot at the balloons 25-ft. above Mingalone's head, missed. His second shot punctured...
...various operating conditions. In 1933 the Hamilton Standard Propellers division of United Aircraft Corp. won the Collier Trophy by producing the first controllable pitch propeller, ''the gearshift of the air." This allowed a pilot to change propeller pitch during flight and achieve maximum propeller efficiency both at take-off and at high speed. A further refinement was the constant speed propeller, which changes pitch automatically as the plane climbs, dives or cruises so that the engine's r.p.m. remain constant...
...balloons, flashing beacons, wind-tunnels, irstruments, parachutes and uniforms, several drew special notice. Displayed for the first time was the world's first single-blade propeller-looking like half an ordinary wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit...
Musical comedy will be the mood of the Dunster Funster take-off on the parietal rules, planned for the evening of Wednesday, December...
...Scripps-Howard editorializing came last fortnight in a glowing confession of faith which blurted: "Speaking generally, we are for Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing spell" announcement (TIME, Sept. 16, 1935). Scripps-Howard's dapper little Publisher Roy W. Howard has kept out of the political spotlight. Last week he was having a breathing spell from...