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...backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen U.S. cities from San Diego to Cedar Rapids, do-it-yourself helicopter kits were outselling Jaguars, and homemade choppers were buzzing peaceful country cow-pastures. Said one fledgling flyer: "There isn't anything in boats, motorcycles, sports cars, parachute jumping or skindiving that will hold a candle...
...snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped her husband's face in her gloved hands, pulled back to look at him, then moved close to kiss him once more. In the excitement of this moment, conversation was almost incoherent. Every few sentences Bruce Olmstead repeated: "I'm sure glad...
...twelve days later. The former French ace, who shot down 47 enemy aircraft in World War I and was wounded 17 times, was never seen again. Pending inspection of the instrument-panel fragment, French authorities remained skeptical that it came from L'Oiseau Blanc. But a former French flyer now living in Maine said that the rivet construction of the fragment indicated that it was from a plane of the same vintage...
...discovery and invention. The firm that Gilbert founded and built into the nation's leading maker of scientific and educational toys, New Haven's A. C. Gilbert Co., pours forth a whole world of challenging and instructive toys that range from his famous Erector set and American Flyer scale-model electric trains to compact lessons in chemistry, biology and physics. Far more than a successful businessman (his firm now sells $13 million a year in some 50 items), Gilbert was long a revered mentor to thousands of budding young U.S. scientists. Each year thousands of boys write...
...Dayton's Air Force Museum, the nation's first military pilot, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 80, took a nostalgic look at the 1909 Wright Flyer, then climbed aboard the open-air, pusher-propellered crate. With him was an old colleague, retired Lieut. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, 83, who in 1910 made the first powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first...