Volume 144, Issue 2
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Features
Automobiles for 1931 in Review
Refining Pluto's Orbit
A Watch-Dog for the Carbureter
ON THE afternoon of December 3, last, Captain Frank Hawks arrived in Memphis, Tennessee, after a fast flight from New York in an airplane equipped with the Motovita which is described in the accompanying article. Its use, according to the flier, enabled him to reduce gasoline consumption of his engine for the distance flown by 40 percent. The claims made for the device are therefore substantiated by the incontrovertible proof of actual use in a 950-mile flight.
Engineering Aspects of Michelson's Velocity-of-Light Experiment
The "Mystery Ship" Revealed
The Fastest Commercial Plane Yet Flown, It Has Out-Performed the Best Planes of the Army and Navy