Word: wingtips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flights or triangular-course races. The committee decided on a 62-mile triangular route. Into his French-built Air 102 glider stepped a foreign contestant, France's youngish (25) Gerard Pierre. As he checked his instrument panel, ground crewmen raised his single-wheeled craft's grounded wingtip and clamped a tow cable to its fuselage. Nearly a half-mile downwind, a 115 h.p. winch roared up and began to reel in the long steel cable, slowly at first, finally at a screaming speed...
...April 22, 1944, like three streams of tracers arcing toward their targets, troops of MacArthur's 32nd, 24th and 41st Divisions landed at Aitape, Tanahmerah and Humboldt Bays. Their goal: three first-rate airstrips at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Since the Japs had conveniently parked 340 planes, wingtip to wingtip, to be destroyed days before, mainly by General Kenney's Fifth Air Force, there was no air resistance. Bare of fighting forces, since the local Japanese commander expected to be attacked at Wewak, Hollandia proved to be a giveaway. Counterattacking Jap forces at Aitape were slaughtered, and MacArthur...
...host of air pressures all over the plane. They told the position of wheels, flaps and control surfaces. They rode herd on scores of temperatures inside and outside the engine and on the skin of the plane itself. They detected the first feeble flutters of a vibrating tail or wingtip. Every motion and tremor of the X3, as it rode high above the desert's Joshua trees, was written down continuously in lines of light in the trailer...
Everybody in the R.A.F. had heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...mind, no one believed it could be done. But when the British aviation show opened at Farnborough this fall, he had already managed to do the trick three times and he was ready to demonstrate it to an incredulous public. Flying a Meteor that was loaded to capacity with wingtip fuel tanks and two dozen 90-lb. rockets, Zura successfully performed his Fin Sling...