Model Plane Drops Parachutist When Timer Stops Engine

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Inside the gas-engined model plane a tiny parachute soldier is waiting to make his jump. The plane buzzes up into the air, and as it levels off in full flight a timer suddenly cuts off the motor. At the same instant the timer presses a lever on the side of the fuselage to the point where it releases a wire, and the hinged trap door in the floor of the plane drops open. Out plunges the two-and-one- half ounce soldier, to drift down by parachute as his plane floats to earth, The plane and its parachutist were built by a young Syracuse, N. Y., mechanic, who has been a model-plane fam 2 hood. Copied after a popular high-wing monoplane, the model weighs three and one-half pounds; its silk parachute is three feet in diameter.

Title (Dublin Core)
Model Plane Drops Parachutist When Timer Stops Engine
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Model Plane Drops Parachutist When Timer Stops Engine
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1941-01
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, v. 75, n. 1, 1941
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
87
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
References (Dublin Core)
Syracuse
New York
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
United States of America