Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shift and its effect on the offensive strength aroused considerable speculation. Last season the Crimson operated from the straight wing-back. "It will all come out after we're scouted", said the coach smilingly...
...Last week for the first time man knew the point at which this progression must stop. In Manhattan Dr. George William Lewis, research director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, demonstrated to the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences that the highest speed airplanes can attain with present wing design is 575 m.p.h...
Presenting motion pictures taken in the NACA's new "superspeed" wind tunnel at Langley Field, Va., where airflow up to 750 m.p.h.* is possible, Dr. Lewis proved that at 575 m.p.h. the smooth flow of air over the wing top suddenly breaks away in a feathery "shock wave" which completely nullifies lifting power. Cause is an area of excessively compressed air, built up by the airfoil's passage. Same phenomenon occurs at the tips of propellers. Only chance for speed greater than 575 m.p.h. is a mechanism for changing wing and propeller shape when the plane reaches...
Since 1932, when twin-engined, low-wing monoplanes became dominant in U. S. air transport, United Air Lines has steadily patronized Boeing, while its rivals, American and TWAirlines, have done most of their buying from Douglas. Last week United also became a patron of Douglas by ordering ten of the huge, 24-passenger Douglas Sleeper Transports (DST), of which American already has 20 on the way. Price...
...convention started off unofficially on a Sunday afternoon with a rousing pep meeting staged by a coterie of Left-wing professors, most of whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege...