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...compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising a drop...
Since when did cars as old as 1902 have a windshield, fenders, wheels and lights like those on Mr. Rockefeller's car (TIME, July 12)? I believe that...
...tail propellers were reduced to one, a seven-cylinder Warner radial engine was installed, the body was decently covered, slicked with windshield and windows. In tests, the Army found that it would do all that Igor Sikorsky had promised and more. It can hover so steadily that once an army man let down a ladder, got out on the ground, got back and pulled the ladder in after him before the pilot sent his craft aloft again...
Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes...
...close. The sky is full of them and there doesn't seem to be room to fly through. They get closer and you hear the whisper of them as they break in close. There is a gunlike report and a sharp pain in your shoulder. In the windshield a large hole through the safety glass. You think you've been hit. The co-pilot's wrist is bloody, and your shoulder feels numb. You can't go fast enough; you're crawling over that target. You've got to level off and fly straight...