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...wheel does not jabber, there is no traffic to sit through, tips are often forbidden and the view is exhilarating. This is a taxi? In many parts of the U.S., it is−an air taxi, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Air taxis link the 600 cities served by scheduled airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk...
...into Windsor, Ont., the owners took their rags and wax and polished up their beauties for the final day. Explains George De Angelis, a co-chairman of the club: "The first round is to separate the men from the boys. A car that has a 6:00 x 16 wheel instead...
...original wire wheel-he's out right away." Then the judges get down to finer points. Cars manufactured in 1928 and 1929, for instance, came with nickel-plated brightwork, which requires constant polishing. To save on elbow grease, some owners have chrome-plated their radiator grilles and head lamps. Says De Angelis: "That's O.K. unless it comes down to some real close judging. Then the car with the nickel plate wins." Best of show went to Arland Banning of Des Moines, who owned a 1931 de luxe Phaeton with snap-in isinglass windows. Final event...
...each cluster, the Montana seismometers are set like spokes in a wheel, and at the center of each wheel is a small vault housing instruments for collecting the seismic signals. After the signals are picked up and amplified, they are translated into digital data and transmitted over telephone lines and radio to a data-processing center in a converted poolroom 140 miles away in Billings. The signals are eventually sent to M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., where computers are programmed to determine more precisely the source and direction of the vibrations and whether they were caused...
...miles long, runs up steep country roads, contains no fewer than 15 curves, and its straightaways are no longer than 200 yds. Yet the cars average 69 m.p.h., occasionally even top 125 m.p.h. Most drivers try to "straighten the curves" by skidding around the corner in a controlled four-wheel slide and then snapping the car into a lightning-like acceleration. Says British Driver Tony Marsh: "You have no chance of winning unless you go absolute flat-out-so that means you are on the ragged edge of losing control of the car all the way up the hill...