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...rules for last week's contest gave Fernandez every opportunity to push his luck to the limit. Hungry for a supersonic record, race officials decided to give pilots their choice between air-to-air refueling and lugging underslung wing tanks...
Douglas has spent some $5,000,000 and 300,000 engineering man hours to design its plane. It will closely resemble the 707, have swept-back wings and underslung engine pods, which reduce the danger of fire or structural damage if an engine breaks down. The DC-8 will have the heavier, more powerful (well over 15,000 lbs. thrust) Pratt & Whitney J75 engine. Both planes will be fitted with newly developed silencers to cut the scream of their jets on the ground, plus a device to reverse the jet thrust so that they can be stopped quickly after landing...
Actually, Boeing's pride was more damaged than its plane. Not a drop of fuel spilled from the wing tank; the basic wing structure was undamaged and the two underslung engine nacelles appeared only scratched. But the maiden flight of the 707 would be delayed at least several weeks. The faulty landing gear would need careful study, perhaps even a complete redesign by Boeing's engineers. The left wing root and damaged flap would have to be repaired and the two left engines checked for damage...
...best boats available, he won time & again in the tough six-meter class, and sailed against the best, e.g., Corny Shields, Arthur Knapp, in the top-drawer International Class. He also began collecting "classic" sports cars. Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing. Cunningham candidly admits that he does not know precisely how many of the cars (all licensed, tuned and ready to go) he keeps in the spreading...
...along the way, at which points Danny could go into a comic Kayedenza if the inspiration came. And inspiration does come. One of the funniest parts of the picture is the scene in which Kaye. on the spur of the moment, becomes an automobile salesman sputtering trade talk ("overhead underslung oscillating compression decravinator") as if his teeth were a string of firecrackers...