Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad that pulled a 3-0 upset on Dartmouth last year, and they started this year by taking over Navy by the same score. The third dangerous team that the Crimson has to face in succession, the Southerners feature straight power plays, operating from the good old single wing formation...
...prime virtue of the Zero is that it handles well-climbs fast and maneuvers quickly. Its speed is good (more than 350 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet) and its service ceiling is exceptional: 36,000 feet. It is light (5,140 Ib. is normal flying weight) and rather small (wing span, 39.4 feet; length, 28.4 feet...
...made Hamilton Standard. The air frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...must be luck or the patronizing hand of an angel. Trail broke out under left wing of B-24 bomber. For the scouting planes that are checking on us we wrote a large three dots and one dash for victory and success...
...noteworthy for: 1) the vagueness of its talk; 2) the large number of students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group of delegates with a dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above all, there was blushing Liudmila Pavlichenko, 26-year-old Soviet sniperess (in field uniform and boots), whose rifle has ticked off 309 Nazis (TIME, Sept...