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...below zero and the pressure low enough to make a man's blood boil; though the little plane's cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned, Bridgeman wore a specially designed pressure-suit with a helmet like a deep-sea diver's. A tiny windshield wiper cleared the face plate of the condensed moisture from his breath...
...typical message to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics: a report from a patrol-bomber squadron that the windshield wipers on its Lockheed P2V planes did not work because the windstream lifted them off the glass. The report went down through the aircraft division to the Lockheed patrol plane desk officer, headed through the airborne equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken...
...stations will probably be rushed by procrastinators, just getting in under the deadline, Brakes, lights, windshield wipers, and signal lights all have to be in good shape to merit the black, April, 1951, stamp...
...drivers stepped on the gas, tore into the British sector. Walter Waaske, driver of one bus, told what happened next: "All of a sudden a policeman turned his pistol toward my bus and shot. The bullet hit the windshield, and I could not see through it. I drove as fast as possible toward Potsdamer Strasse. Two more bullets hit the bus. One went through the coat of an officer sitting behind me." One of the passengers was 13-year-old Kristin Norstad, daughter of Lieut. General Norstad, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. She called the incident...
Afterthought. In Connecticut, which already has a law requiring windshield wipers on every car, legislators considered a bill making windshields mandatory...