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...sultry air lay heavy and oppressive over central Michigan. Scudding up from the south, dark cumulus clouds reared their anvil-shaped heads into a leaden overcast. The flatlands sweltered as the temperature climbed to 90°. Aloft, cool winds raced down from the northern Rockies, rode over the blanketing heat. The black, moisture-laden thunderheads ballooned, formed a storm line which writhed eastward toward the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Suddenly, swirling like water draining from some giant bathtub, the tornadoes spun out of the clouds and swept across the land...
...some air lanes, distance-measuring equipment (DME) is being installed along with the Omniranges. A small transmitter in the approaching plane sends out brief pulses of radio energy. At the Omnirange station, another transmitter answers with a similar signal. Aloft, complicated circuits translate the time between pulse and answer into the plane's distance from the Omnirange, shown on a handy dial...
Ruffles & Flourishes. In East Molesey, England, Butcher Shop Executive Stan Richards and his bride, after a formal wedding, left the church under an arch of soupbones held aloft by 14 meatcutters...
...Skyrocket, a swept-wing Skystreak. The Skyrocket was powered by a rocket engine with 6,000 lbs. of thrust when it set new altitude and speed records on Aug. 15, 1949. Lugged aloft by a Superfortress, the Skyrocket climbed to 79,494 ft. and screamed over Edwards Air Force Base at 1,238 m.p.h...
...Mabrûk, Mabrûk!" (congratulations), murmured Stevenson and Naguib to each other as they signed the blue-paged agreement. Naguib, his face a picture of glee (see cut), held aloft the fountain pen and said: "I will send it to the museum." Newsmen and photographers hugged and bussed him; guards, overcome with emotion, bent to kiss his hand, were told sharply: "Give me a strong handshake. That would be better." From Washington came a strong handshake: "This Government is highly gratified...