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With a predicted top horizontal speed of over 500 m.p.h., the XFY-I is designed to give close Navy air cover to cargo ships, taking off and landing on a freighter's deck even in rough weather...
...long and So ft. wide, with twin decks, which are joined by big, vertical steel tubes that are driven into the sea floor by hydraulic jacks. The upper deck rides 50 ft. above the water and supports the drill rig; the lower platform is flooded and slides down the tubes to squat on the bottom for better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform...
...mile cruise, the young (31) prince himself was at the helm, sporting a month-old growth of beard and looking every inch a blue-water sailor. Cheering crowds of Monégasques lined the waterfront to greet him and to gaze in wonder at the deck load of souvenirs he had brought back: cages of live chimpanzees, baboons, gibbons, and marmosets, a pelican, an egret, two gazelles and six baby caymans, all destined for a new national...
...Pete" Mitscher was already bald and beginning to look wizened when, at 29, he won his wings. Thereafter, throughout the monotonous, between-war years of fitness reports and training procedures, he lived only for naval aviation. As the first U.S. Navy officer assigned to command flying operations from the deck of a ship (the converted collier Langley), Pete Mitscher wrote the book on seaborne air power. And as tactical commander of the Pacific Fleet's fast carrier task forces in World War II, Mitscher the mediocre became Mitscher the magnificent...
...Deck Frye, Princeton's replacement for the injured Royce Flippin, finally got a starting assignment against Cornell last Saturday, only to leave the game on the fourth play with a shoulder separation. He will be out for the rest of the season...