Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of six new "clippers"' ordered by Pan American Airways, the 8-42 is a duralumin flying boat with four cowled engines set into the leading edge of its single wing. Its wingspan is 114 ft. 2 in., its length 76 ft. Tanks in the wings carry 1.250 gal. of fuel. With tanks full, a crew of five, 32 passengers, 1,000 Ib. of mail, the 8-42 will weigh 19 tons...
...wing is mounted on a single turret. This construction is expected to reduce vibration in the hull. The passengers' compartment is amidships. In the nose is the control compartment which seats two pilots side by side, mechanic and radio operator behind them. Each pilot has a set of flying instruments and controls before him, and neither sees the engine instruments which are mounted on the rear bulkhead under the eyes of the mechanic. At the mechanic's elbow is a lever with which he can instantly flood the motors with extinguishing chemicals...
...have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight of the Left Wing is particularly acute in such a nationalistic country, of course, faced by a future which will without doubt exacerbate that fever; apparently they are arming for a real conflict, but they must know their chances are small...
...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...
...Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last was leaving for her Manhattan dramatic school. Micky was going to have a baby. The Author, in company with many a left-wing litterateur, has taken a modern highroad to Parnassus. He comes honestly by his industrial subject. After serving in the War with an ambulance corps, later in the French artillery, he worked nine months in a Canadian mill town, then as a bobbin-boy in a New Bedford, Mass. mill. When...