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...totals were: Harvard, 99; M.I.T., 95; Boston College, 80; Tuft, 75; Northeastern, 72; and Boston University, 63. Fred Brooks of M.I.T. took a flyer wide to the leeward in hope of picking...
Short-range (200 miles) navigational aids such as radio ranges and Omni Range have long been used to guide U.S. aircraft, with pilots switching from one station to another enroute across the country. But when a jet flyer, moving upwards of 600 m.p.h., tunes in on an Omni Range or a radio beam, he is often out of range before he can calculate his position...
Sandals & Shooting. Kraft TV Theater also took a flyer at the toga-and-sandal crowd with Whim of Iron, a halfhearted comedy about Byzantine days and nights which came out so ineptly that its author, Michael Dyne, insisted on being identified over the air as "Michael Roberts." Explained Dyne's agent: "That's the only form of protest a writer on television...
...brief years of heady profits, then nose-dived when the war-inspired interest in private flying died down. By 1950 many of the hopeful new firms had gone broke, and the big three found the going rough. What gave them a lift was the new businessman-flyer, plus defense orders. With the increasing diversification of U.S. industry, thousands of businessmen found flying a necessity. But up to then, most of their planes were war-surplus bombers and transports that cost up to $100 an hour to fly, were useless away from the long runways of big-city airports. To solve...
...Pride helped bring on that revolution. His Langley service, followed by tours aboard the Saratoga and the Lexington, established Pride as a top Navy flyer (he has logged some 5,000 air hours and today, at 57, is still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...