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aeronautical definitions
in this puzzle?
2—Be in debt
3Gensine
4Personal pronoun
5—Period of time
6—One who hoards
7—Augury
8—Unit of power eapak
ne. abbreviated
9—Patronage
10—Envelop
1—Simall casks
16—Mesh around balloon which sup=
ports basket
18 Unobstructed
2i—Relgian all-wood single-seat light
plane
25—Islands on west coast of Ireland
27-—Material used! for violin strings
28—Weste piece of cloth
30—Improving
32—Meditates
33—Drrlen
city of aero
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1—Revolving tendency in airplane
caused by propeller rotation
Commerce director who recently
resigned
38—Military foe
6—Col. Lindbergh's new plane 39—Colloquial name for airplane fuel
12—Female sheep 40—Seck legal redress
13—Therefore 41—Thirtcenth Greek letter
14—Pollnted 42—Quoted
15—Intermediate 44 South Dakota, abbreviated
4
17—Front end of airplane
19—Dirigible frame distortion in
Which center is lower than ends
20—Allow
22-—Snall inelosure for animals
23—Initials designating second addi
tional message afier body of a
letter
24-Sixth note in musical scale
26—Type of powerful Armstrong
Siddeley ra ne
28—Smallest U. S. State, abbreviated
29—Form of verb “to be"
31—Play on words
32.
Measure of length equal to 5%
yards
47—Dark viscous liquid
48—To be seated
50—First_ name of Arabian Nights
hero who outwitted forty thieves
51—Competent
One of the Great Lakes
Instrument for writing
Accomplish
'y switch used on
gasemodel planes
61—Kind of Lockheed plane, in plural
U. S. dirigible which crashed in
Pacific
35—Most domesticated
irst name of Bureau of Air
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1—Pattern used in
tural shapes, as
iting. strue-
plane moclels
34 Unnecessary
cond largest existing bird
37—Constime
39—Female child
42—Metal rope with which airplane
controls are operated
45—Engrossed
46—Type of shock-absorbing kandi
strut
47—Rear surfaces of airplane
49-Set of three
S2—Leading manufacturer uf ai
plane floats
54Hotel
‘50—Balaneing point around wh
aircraft turns, abbreviated
$8—Coordinating conjunetion
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About the great
new airliners
under construc-
tion for the mayor
air lines—the
plane on the cover
By Fans Dheisy
Dougles introduces startling developments in the DC-4.
NE extraordinarily rapid growth of aérial transport
in the United States during the past decade has
astonished the world, ‘The high speed, comfort, and
relative safety of our present-day sky-liners still seems in-
credible to those of tis who look hack a few short years
to the first fumbling beginnings of American a
In those days of sporadic service
ment, a transcontinental journe
was a real adventure.
Even after the major systems began to take form, a trip
from coast to coast was something to talk about.
T remember one emergency hop from New York to
Seattle taken only eight years ago, Tt was over the then
comparatively new United Air Lines, The first leg was,
the Newark-to-Chicago run, It was flown in an old
Ford “tin goose” with rough air most of the way. Time
about six hours. Then, after a three-hour wait, a.
shift was made to one of the big Bocing 80s, This was,
probably the best heavy transport of its day, being stable,
coumodious, and comfortable, It had seats for
passengers and carried a crew of three—pilot, co-pilot,
and hostess. On this particular fight there were just
three passengers aboard.
After several scheduled
stops we wound up at Des
Moines around midnight,
in the midst of a heavy
storm
Three abortive attempts
to get olf convinced the pi-
Jot that prudence was the
beuter part of valor so we
squatted in the mud for
the rest of the night. One
of the passengers became
disgusted with air travel
‘on the ground and feft in
high dudgeon to cateh a
train, ‘There were just
two of xis rattling around
fn the big cabin when we
set dowit at Cheyenne.
«
This marked the end of the division, so after a hurried
h we were shifted again to a Bocing 40, ‘This was
ait open-cockpit mail plane converied by the installation
of a seat in the former mail pit to accommotlate two
passengers. Facliti cl of small window on
ch side through whieh to survey the Utal desert. My
ellow traveler. a Cleveland lawyer bound for Reno, and
J. sat wedged together in the narrow seat with our arms
around each other in fraternal embrace. We finally bade
a fond farewell at Salt Lake City, where T staggered off
to a hotel for a much needed shower and sleep. At
leven p. mi. Twas back at the airport to continue my
swift westward journey. ‘The ship proved to be another
40, this one with separate seats placed in tandem. 1
crawled in, yavening mightily, and, in company with the
U. S. mail. was carried safely through gloom of night
over the Rockies to Boisé. Pasco, Portland, and Seattle,
where we finally arrived about nine am, Total time
clapsed—forty-eight hours.
Compare this with to-day’s sehedules and pause to give
a great big cheer for the air-line boys who have mirac-
ously advanced flying fa-
cilities to their present
high level. Don’t forget a
second yip for the acro-
nautical engineers who de-
signed the ships
with. They are prineipally
responsible for the three
great forward steps that
rave brought America’s
air lines to their present
efficiency. The first of
these steps was the intro-
duction of the Boeing-247.
Then came the Douglas
DC-3 and its night-tawk
ister, the DST. These
hips. placed in service
Tate in 1936, were half
again as big and much
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fagter than the original low=ving jobs. Now we arc wit-
essing the third step, another radical increase in the size
and efficiency of our heavy transports.
Both the Boeing and Douglas organizations have pro-
duced new models that should go a long way toward
maintaining the present U. S. lead in the heavy transport
ficld. In collaboration with the engincers of Pan-Aniet
can Airways, the Seattle company has been working on
the development of a long-range stratosphere tratisport
for trasoecanic For some time now, the “Pan
Am* technicians have been playing with the idea of su
stitwting fast, il planes for the relatively
Jess efficient flying boats now in use. ‘The result of their
cogitations is the new Boving-307, which is being pro-
duced in both standard and stratosphere moxlels,
‘The standard 307 is a four-motoreel, low-wing mono-
plane with a gross weight of 21 tons. [thas a wing-
span of 107 ft., measures 74 ft. from nose to tail ancl has
‘an over-all height of 17 ft. Power is supplied by four
= —— a
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air through intake ports situated far ont on the Ieading.
ccdge of the wings. ‘This pure air is built up to a suitable
pressure and distributed umiformly through the cabin, Tt
is then drawn into an anti-presstire chamber in the rear
fof the cabin amd exhausted into the outer stratosphere.
‘Thus a constant circulation of pure, fresh air of noninal
pressure is maintained at all tin
‘The ability of the stratosphei
high altitudes results in great advantages both in speed
anid comfort, Flying in alm, thin air, high above clouds
and storms, sleeper pasengers are assttred of a good
night's rest ina comfortable, stealy berth, Cruising
is in the neighborhood of 250 m.p.h, bring into the
realms of immediate get, the long-You might also like
