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Workers in the tent are busy with wood, linen and airplane dope making a new flying tab-the movable vertical control surface-for the 49-ft.-high rudder. Not long ago, rain and wind invaded the tent and damaged the rudder, which seems to have been repaired once before, since it bears an inked notation saying that it was worked on in April 1954. A few months before that, Soderberg says, floodwaters surged across Terminal Island, and the Goose was knocked loose from its tie downs, and the tail was damaged. The night of the flood, more than 25 years...
...flying boat wasn't Hughes' idea in the beginning. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to build a fleet of big planes in the early days of the war, when German submarines were sinking U.S. freighters in convoys headed for Britain. They were to be made of wood because aircraft aluminum was in short supply. Kaiser brought Hughes and the Government into the project, then eventually dropped out himself. Hughes' commitment to the plane was passionate. Even after the war ended he pushed on with construction, despite a nearly fatal crash in 1946 when...
...unpretentious old-shoe style that makes him seem comfortably self-effacing-a description seldom applied to the high-strung Haig. Cap enjoys the exercise of power but seems bemused by its trappings. When security-conscious West German officials sent a limousine to take him to a secluded wood for his daily three-mile run one morning, he gently protested, to no avail, that he preferred jogging the streets near his hotel in Bonn. Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike some of his predecessors...
...divine mind. Luck is God in a scatterbrained and even amoral mood, with his sense of justice out of commission. Or, agnostically, luck is the collision of the random with human biography; naturally, human intelligence resents and resists the inexplicable random, and so attributes it to imps, dybbuks, wood sprites, gods of the volcano-all the subdeities of jinx...
...parked the car in a small gravel lot protected by the leafless branches of several huge oak trees. The buildings were not large, but they were strong and old and they demanded respect. Stocky chimneys protruded at irregular intervals from the green-blue roofs, and the hard, wood doors were dark and wet from the rain...