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...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...
...automobiles. This time he used a new Auburn chassis for his test. His engine has six cylinders, 100 h. p., weighs only 80 lb. more than the 8-cylinder Lycoming gasoline engine it replaced. It can turn 3,000 r. p. m., make 90 m. p. h. with a gear ratio slightly above normal. It weighs only 8 lb. per h. p., would cost some 10% more than a gasoline engine to put into mass production. It has no spark plugs, no ignition system, no carburetor, is free from carbon. There is no fire or explosion hazard. The exhaust...
...motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along...
Taking six passengers from Washington to Detroit in a trimotored Ford of Central Airlines, he got as far as Hancock, Md. when the left outboard motor exploded, tore loose from its moorings, crashed through the landing gear and plunged earthward. The other two motors sputtered, the plane vibrated heavily, all lights went out. Pilot Carmichael stuck a flashlight out the window, calmly took stock of the situation...
...Maine farmer sits at his radio of an evening, impressed by the realistic sound of thunger, gunshots, the gear-whine of cars; and he says to his wife "by gorry, that's good," little thinking that the inventor was a Greek of the fifth century...