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...plane was a three-year-old ANT-25 (the initials for Designer A. N. Tupoleff) monoplane with one engine, 112 ft. wingspread. To fly it Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept...
Arizona. Huge, beaked reptiles gliding on batlike wings, the pterosaurs reached their greatest size in the Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce...
...year's study, the specifications for the new plane fill 195 pages, are the most complete ever drafted. In general the standardized supership will resemble the famed Douglas DC2 and the new DST, but it will be nearly twice the former's size, with 140-ft. wingspread, 95-ft. length, 25-ton weight, four motors. Able to seat 40 passengers or sleep 20, it will have a top speed of 230 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 210 at 75% horsepower, will be able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from New York...
...that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D-1 tickled Navy officials, impressed them especially by carrying a 2,000-lb. payload on one engine...