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...connection with the National Air Races, assumes importance as the world's foremost air speed contest. The event was the climax of last fortnight's meet at Cleveland. Eight swift planes started, among them Doolittle in the chunky, barrel-like Gee-Bee racer with an 800-h. p. Wasp in its fat nose, and the pilot's cockpit far back amid the fanlike tail surfaces. Another starter was minuscule "Jimmy" Haizlip who broke the transcontinental record last fortnight. Before the end of the race Doolittle, his eyes watery with hay fever, had lapped every opponent save one. His top speed...
...famed French beauty bathed in asses' milk. He ordered gallons of milk sent to Actress Held's apartment, waited. The milk company sued him; newshawks asked the reason for so huge a bill. Ziegfeld exhibited to them smiling Anna neckdeep in a milk-filled bath tub. That and her wasp-waist made her famous. He divorced her in 1912. She died in 1918, crippled by her corsets...
Last week Publisher Putnam was fidgeting and fretting in a hotel room. Somewhere out over the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, N. F. was "A. E.," alone this time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...
Nearly two years ago Pratt & Whitney motor experts flew for newsmen a plane equipped with what looked like an ordinary Wasp engine but which differed in an important respect: the engine had no carburetor, received fuel by direct injection into its cylinders. No more was heard of the experiment until last week when Pratt & Whitney announced that long-time tests had proved successful: a carburetorless Hornet engine of 525 h. p. had been installed in a Boeing mail plane for actual service. Advantages: direct fuel injection eliminates all carburetion troubles including the danger of ice formation in the carburetor during...