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...sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...
...April 1941 issue to U.S. aircraft production. This one ran to 240 pages, and was crammed with figures of flight, with colored photographs of fighting planes in the air, with charts showing how bombs drop, with maps of the world's airlines and with intricate diagrams, explaining yaw, windstreams and something called a "compressibility burble" which was said to be essential to flight. The U.S. in the air seemed to be equal to any test put upon it: the U.S. had enough technical experience, enough trained men, enough facilities for research, to meet any challenge. And so-though many...
...city desks cut up. The Post ran an eight-column head: NAGIRROC YAW GNORW OT LIAH. The Journal and American (Hearst) ran a banner head, WELCOME TO YOU O'CORRIGAN in Gaelic, later got a better idea, printed it in green. The Sun, which had previously used Corrigan's unorthodox navigation as a stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven...
Left. By the late Michigan Senator James Couzens (TIME, Nov. 2) who died intestate; an estimated $30,000,000 to be divided under State law: one-third to Widow Margaret Ann Manning Couzens, two-thirds between his three daughters (Mrs. Madeleine Couzens Yaw, Mrs. Margo Couzens Chewning, Edith Valeria Couzens) and his son Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit. Federal estate taxes will take some...