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...like the occasional opportunity to be paired with a famous brand name. Tie-in promotional material is usually given more and better space in stores and show windows, is liked even by large corporations that can easily afford solo advertising. United's men-only Caravelle flights got additional thrust from Caravelle suits by Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Caravelle golf carts by a Chicago manufacturer. Ford's Mustang was introduced with ties to everything from toy cars to Mustang sunglasses by Renauld...
...would the Bolsheviks now be merely a footnote to history? Not the least of the paradoxes is the fact that Communism, which teaches the inevitability of historical forces and the impotence of the individual in swaying them, owes its conquest of Russia to the energy and confident thrust of Lenin alone...
United Air Lines, which last year made a gallant try to bring order out of chaos by introducing "one-class," one-fare flights on many runs, reversed its thrust, asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to begin three-class service in August. Should the CAB approve, as expected, United will become the first airline to offer first-class, "standard," and coach seats on transcontinental runs, will join TWA, American, and Continental Air Lines in three-class service on shorter flights...
...LIFT ENGINES: In yet another approach to the problem, France's Dassault Mirage III-V will pack eight small Rolls-Royce jet engines thrusting downward. When well in the air, a larger jet will take over and push the plane forward at supersonic speed. Its designers admit that the vertical engines will be dead cargo most of the time, but they think vertical engines will have less effect on performance than dual-purpose engines that are too powerful for efficient horizontal flight. A German V/STOL, the Bölkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly...
...manhole covers. When opened, each cover exposes a fan 5 ft. in diameter. When valves close off the tailpipe of the jet engines, racing exhaust gases hit the tips of the fan blades and spin them at high speed. Twin blasts of air are forced downward, and their powerful thrust lifts the airplane off the ground. Transition to horizontal flight is made by gradually opening the normal tailpipe and covering the wing fans. So far the XV-5A has been tested only in conventional flight. If the XV-5A succeeds in taking off vertically and making the transition to horizontal...