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...more than three months, H.M.S. Highburton plowed endlessly back and forth over a measured mile in choppy waters between the southern coast of England and the Isle of Wight. It was a monotonous mission for the crew of the coastal mine sweeper, but it may well prove momentous for the commercial fleets and navies of the world. During those test runs, the British Admiralty said last week, a versatile chemical helped the little ship to cut its normal fuel consumption by 15% and to reach speeds higher than it had ever before attained...
...girls not only believed in the existence of a cryptogram but they had formulated a rather complete solution to it. The Beatles were inviting everyone to a party. Why? They were lonely. When? Valentine's Day, 1968. Where? 10 Somerset Street, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. How do we let them know we are coming? Send them the postcard that comes with the cutouts in the album. How do we get there? Meet a maid Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock (Valentine's Day was on a Wednesday). She takes you there by boat, train, and taxi. "A splendid time...
This is all quite plausible, believe it or not. There is a city named Cowes on the Isle of Wight. (The Isle of Wight is, of course, mentioned as a haven in When I'm 64.) Is there a Somerset Street? The people in the map room at Lamont were very helpful. They found the British Geological Survey maps of the famous Isle, but there are no street maps of any of the towns on the Isle of Wight...
...Britten-Norman Ltd. seems almost an anachronism. The airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...
...hundreds of spectators on England's Isle of Wight last week, it seemed for a moment as if the entire pier were suddenly roaring off into the water. What they actually witnessed, however, was the beginning of the maiden run of the SR.N4, the world's largest hovercraft. Driven by four 19½-ft. propellers and supported on a cushion of air, the 130-ft.-long, 76-ft.-wide craft moved smoothly into waters whipped into a frenzy by near-gale winds. As the London Times described it, "the huge amphibian lifted her skirts with commendable decorum...