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Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...
...three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
...group of Adrian citizens built in 1836 the Erie & Kalamazoo R.R., linking the navigable waters of the Kalamazoo River with Lake Erie. Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...
...James P. Young arrived in Virginia Beach, Va., having taken two and a half months to ride from California on a tandem bicycle. They promptly started back...
Intent on following the Harvard-Cornell race on the Charles Saturday, Nicholas Satterlee '38 of Eliot House and his companion Mary Ayer of Milton disregarded orders of police to get off the sidewalk of Memorial Drive with the tandem bicycle and were consequently arrested and fined ten dollars each...