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...beyond a doubt, outperforms any ship of its kind in the world, but that is all. World's largest amphibian is Sikorsky Model 540, better known as the Yankee and Caribbean Clippers. 542 will always be strictly a flying boat. TIME airwriter undoubtedly mistook beaching wheels for landing gear...
Neither the Sikorsky 540 nor 542 may correctly be called amphibian, as they never descend on land, have retractable landing gear which is used only when the boats are beached for overhauling. They are properly called flying boats...
...zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...
...that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
While Chancellor Dollfuss, Major Fey and Under-Secretary Baron Karl Karwinsky were being trapped in the State Apartments, Vienna's chief radio station RAVAG was falling in the hands of eight desperate youths in Austrian Nazi gear. They had burst in, shot the manager and forced the chief announcer to tell all Austria in a trembling voice: "It is one minute and 30 seconds past one p. m. We have to inform you that the Dollfuss Cabinet has resigned and Anton Rintelen has taken over the Government...