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Over Cottage Farm Bridge, down Commonwealth Ave., through the Sumner Tunnel, and the lights of the Cyclone heave in sight,--bright lights, climbing, falling, twisting. "I've been on that fool roller coaster three times in a row!" someone boasts...
...ship as she swung out past Point Loma. Among them, none watched more intently than Engineer David Richard Davis, because none had a bigger stake in her than he. For David Davis had designed her slim no-foot wing, had calculated on the drawing board and in the wind tunnel that it was close to perfection...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
Dedicated during the day by NACA's scholarly Dr. Edward P. Warner were two new wind tunnels which are now in operation. In both, NACA engineers work under a pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one, studies can be made on fixed models of 19-ft. wingspread in winds of more than 250 m.p.h. In the other a model can be flown as in free air, operated by remote control from a tunnel cockpit. Control is achieved through fine wires to electromagnets in the ship...
Most U. S. theatres are either obsolete or stupid. Famed in the profession is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, where the builder forgot dressing rooms. Another building had consequently to be bought on the next street, to which actors could commute by tunnel. First-rate modern architects have usually done business with individuals who want sensible homes or with industrialists who want sensible factories. Broadway has been no place for them...