Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin bomber is a mid-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, two 550-h.p. Cyclone engines built into the wing. A transparent enclosed turret in the nose houses a machine gun crew. In tests the ship had to be throttled down to keep pace with its convoy of pursuit planes...
...invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight to Catalina Island 28 mi. offshore. Few years later he took Mary Pickford up for her first flight...
...Neither Radical nor Marxian Socialist is the Radical-Socialist Party of France. It is best compared to the left-wing members of the British Liberal Party...
...Author. Though agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even...
...Seversky ship is an all-metal low-wing monoplane mounted on what look like ordinary seaplane floats within which are concealed wheels. By a reverse of usual practice the floats may be retracted to expose the wheels for landing. Also they can serve as skiis for landing on snow. Estimated top speed: 200 m. p. h. with a 400-h. p. Whirlwind: 290 m. p. h. with a 700-h. p. Cyclone (with floats detached and wheels fully retracted). Wing flaps will slow the ship for landing. Major de Seversky, who lost a leg in the War, proposes to enter...