A large contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought...
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