Word: wingtips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Dos Passos, novelist (Manhattan Transfer, Big Money) turned LIFE war correspondent in the Philippines, was reported knocked cold, gashed in the head, given a black eye and slight concussion when hit on the head by the wingtip of a landing Piper Cub plane. Correspondent Dos Passos merely noted that he suffered "a nasty little accident (almost got my block knocked off by a plane...
Back home in England, Frenesi, with Copilot Jabez Churchill of Santa Rosa, Calif. helping Cely in the wrestle with the controls, staggered into an airdrome, landed right side up, stopped. Mechanics appraised her damage with quick professional eyes: most of the tail shot away, one wingtip gone, fuselage and wings holed more times than they could count until they got her in the dispersal station...
...clippers for the 1,100-mile over-the-Gulf hop. Biggest advantage: U.S. citizens will have their first south-central international airport (other southern ports: Miami, Los Angeles, Fort Worth and Brownsville, Tex.). Biggest disadvantage: cramped facilities at New Orleans, where the largest hangar leaves three feet of Clipper wingtip in the rain...
...Brewster Aeronautical Corp. last week, seized Brewster's two plants in Long Island City (where it manufactures dive-bomber parts), its big, new, final assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa. (where it is supposed to be zipping out finished planes) and its plant at Newark Airport (where it makes wingtip floats and other gear for Consolidated Catalina Flying Boats). Brewster was the fifth U.S. firm to be seized by the Government since war began in Europe...
Before the sun was high, the planes, flying wingtip to wingtip under tumbling Pacific clouds, were back over the carrier. Only one was missing. The pilot had radioed that he was crippled by anti-aircraft fire, but might make it. He never...