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...Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression of the albatross's back, a dip that allowed the bird to utilize the force of head-winds into which it might be flying. And he had designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine was to have a wingspan of 25 ft., a tail...
...70th Congress received last week from President Coolidge an almanac of some 9,000 words on the State of the Union. He was sorry it could not be shorter. The bursting-with-fact nature of its paragraphs were its apology. Where it had to dip into theory it emerged abruptly and proceeded apace. Levity is not permitted to Presidents, especially in surveys of the state of the union, yet such is the Coolidge humor that some of this message's least ponderous paragraphs were devoted to three of his most vexed topics...
...January. Returning late from a long journey we find all deserted and quiet. From the river rises the evening fog clothing in mystery the willows on the banks. Only the rhythmical click of the oars in the row-locks breaks the silence. Eight-blades swing regularly together and softly dip. Everyone is conscious of the music fundamental to rowing
Along the front of the main wing and in front of the rear ailerons, spectators found a tiny curved plane when the machine landed. Automatically extending itself by air pressure on the wing, the enlarged surface grips the air when the plane stalls; props it; forbids the wing dip which precedes the spin...
...more a pleasure because it was unexpected. I really didn't intend to write for the CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should...