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Arriving at Gander, passengers are herded off their planes through long, wooden ramps appropriately called "sheep runs." The ramps lead to a vast, gloomy hangar built in 1941, when Gander was expanded to serve as a bomber ferry base. Grounded travelers, hung up in Gander for periods varying from an...
Jockey Tony DeSpirito's headlong drive on the record for winners ridden in one year took on all the suspense of a movie serial last week. As 18-year-old Tony came closer & closer to the record mark, people who had never seen a horse race were asking: "Will...
DISASTERS Locked Controls Rudders, ailerons and elevators of grounded aircraft will flap in the wind unless they are kept rigidly locked. Until planes got too big, it was easy enough to walk around outside one after a landing and slip wooden battens over the control surfaces-and to take them...
The helicopter came of age in 1950 in the Korean war. On awkward, whirring wings, from Korean battlefields to Brazilian jungles, it has fluttered to the rescue of grounded airmen. It has ferried passengers and cargo to remote landings that were unreachable by conventional, straight-wing planes. Last week the...
Lincoln held Stuffy McInnis team scoreless until the last of the seventh. Groper first up grounded out to short. Bob Smith blasted a long double to deep right center and scored. When with two out, Johnson singled to right.