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Aircraft designers have studied the flight of birds only superficially. But with slide rule and logarithm they have come close, independently, to the mechanisms that keep the bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...
With a series of slow-motion pictures, Storer proves that birds use all the aerodynamic tricks that man builds into his airplanes-and a few more besides. A bird's "propellers," explains Storer, are the big feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...
Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards...
...which North eastern coach Herb Gallagher inserted his three lines. At no time during the game was there any guarantee that the Huskie first line would be replaced by the second. Nor did the makeup of the forward walls remain constant. Northeastern ace Jim Bell appeared as a cenlor, wing, and defenseman. Unfortunately the variety of Bell's roles had no damaging effects on his scoring skill and he collected three of Northeastern's five goals...
With his first line hampered by the illness of right wing Rip Lynch, Priddy is experimenting with his third string men to find a suitable third line. The coach made frequent substitutions Monday to observe third line possibilities in action...