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...Jenkins' invention did not, however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead...
...planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...
Prints of some of Audubon's bird engravings now command many thousands of dollars. Audubon murals would have been a priceless haul for a natural history or art museum; may yet be if art salvagers have sufficient ingenuity...
Looking down on Akron, Ohio, from an airplane a mile high, it seemed as if some gigantic bird had laid 15 spherical eggs on a field near the city. Soon the eggs rose and floated away to the northeast. The illusion was shattered; for no egg that can float in the air has yet been laid. Closer inspection revealed that these objects were balloons with baskets tied to their bottoms. In the baskets were anxious, active specks of men. They jockeyed with the wind, sailed away to Canada, New York, New England...
...Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...