Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Director Vidal attacked the problem in typical New Deal manner. He revealed that aeronautical engineers have assured him: "It is a comparatively easy task to design and turn out on a volume-production scale a small airplane which will sell for around $700. . . . It would be a low-wing monoplane . . . would carry two passengers, be constructed of a new steel alloy, fitted with an eight-cylinder, smallbore engine . . . and equipped with a geared propeller. Top speed probably would not exceed 100 m.p.h. The outstanding feature would be the landing speed of about 25 m.p.h. which would be brought about...
...with cancer.† Across from him sat his assistant, Dr. John Straumfjord, with whom he was flying to Medford, Ore. to operate on a colleague. Leaving the airport the pilot circled gingerly up through the fog, edging perilously near the hills which rise abruptly to the west. Suddenly a wing tip gouged a tree on the hilltop. Down the ship crashed. It broke apart, caught fire. In an instant Stewardess Libby Wurgaft had the cabin door open. Four times she entered the blazing cabin, each time helped bring out an injured passenger. But nobody could save Dr. Coffey...
...Reinhold Krause, a Berlin pastor associated with the extreme wing of the Nazi movement, has called down a summary rebuke from the Reichsbishop by a very curious salvo on the Old Testament. He uncompromisingly demanded "elimination of the Old Testament as a religious book . . and rejection of all ecclesiastical leaders who do not stand 100 per cent upon the platform of National Socialism." I can only interpret this demand as a suggestion that there is a heady and dangerous impasse between the political theory of the Old Testament and that of the Hitler party. How far is our thunderer justified...
...speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined nacelle, is mounted atop the wing. A new wrinkle in amphibion design is an auxiliary 30 h. p. -motor and water propeller to be stowed in the Fairchild's nose. After alighting on the water...
...Warner at Stanford. The Rockne system is based on deception and speed, the Warner system on deception and power. It requires a practically immovable line, to hold indefinitely while the backfield shuttles the ball back & forth in mystifying maneuvers. Essential feature of the Warner offense is the "double wing-back." A wingback is simply a halfback who takes position about a yard and a half behind the line of scrimmage and about the same distance outside his own end. When both halfbacks are in such position, it is a double wingback pattern. Some times one wingback helps...