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...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation???the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
...problems of flight with a view to their practical solution," Congress in 1915 created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a group of experts now numbering 15, appointed by the President to serve without pay. In theory, the committee is the semi-official laboratory of all U. S. aviation???Governmental and commercial. Since aviation's boom year of 1927, this Committee's annual appropriations have increased from $513,000 to $1,053,790. Best known products of its laboratory at Langley Field, Va. are NACA wing sections and the NACA engine cowling which first won fame on Capt. Frank Monroe...
Last week at Mitchel Field a new Brunner-Winkle biplane was the only contestant present. Its pilots took her up. Then appeared the Guggenheim Fund's pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation???Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took...
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