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Word: wings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye, promised to be back in a month or so, and took off from Teterboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Flivver Flight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Graduation has taken his entire last year's starting forward line and several reserves, but Kelley still has co-captain John Cocoran at right wing, Johnny McIntyro at center, and sophomore John Mahler up to fill in at left wing...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Powerful Quintet, Weakened Skaters Face Techmen, B.C. | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

Heinrich Bruening, former German Chancellor and professor of Government, will discuss "German Production" on December 16 with an informal gathering of the United Nations Laboratory, foreign student wing of the U.N. Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Group Will Hear Bruening and Bonnet | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Philip C. Potter '48 of Winthrop House and New York City was elected captain of the 1948 Varsity soccer team yesterday afternoon at a meeting in Dillon Field House while reporters and photographers waited in another wing for news of the football election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potter Picked Varsity Soccer Captain; Toulmin, Manager | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...investigators went over the Gallup plane, suspicion at first centered on the heating system. The Sixes have had trouble recently when both the heating and pressurizing systems were working. But tests showed no fault in the heater. Investigators suspected another cause. This was that gasoline, overflowing from the wing tanks, had caught fire as it was vented under the fuselage just forward of the heater air intake. If that proved to be the case, Douglas estimated that modifications could be made in a short time. But the Sixes would stay on the ground until CAB and Douglas were sure they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Grounded | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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