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Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...
Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
...great designer of radial air-cooled engines is Charles L. Lawrence, now president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. There are no patents on the basic design, so more than a dozen U. S. motormakers are producing them. Most famed are the Wright Whirlwind* and Cyclone, Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet, Warner Scarab...