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Congratulated on his narrow escape, Pilot Gehlbach shrugged, joined Navy officials reviewing a motion picture of his flight. The Navy decided to do its future testing of difficult, dangerous X-737 in the new spinning-tunnel at the NACA laboratory, Langley Field...
...surprise for this year's conference turned out to be a "free-spinning" vertical wind tunnel, first in the U.S. The huge, upended cylinder is 15 ft. in diameter, has an observation platform surrounding it, a propeller to furnish a 50-m.p.h. blast of air. Some 300 pairs of eyes, including Col. Lindbergh's, fairly popped as they watched a 3-1 scale model demonstrate how an airplane behaves in the dreaded tailspin...
...books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
That afternoon President Roosevelt announced that $200,000,000 of Federal relief money would be spent to bridge over and tunnel under grade crossings...
Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods...