Science: Aviation Research

There is much recent technical aviation news:

> The study of level flight speeds of more than 450 miles per hour is the purpose of a new $2,100,000 wind tunnel now under construction at Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. The tunnel was financed by four members of the Aircraft War Production Council: Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, North American. An identical air tunnel is being built by Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo.

> To prevent the disabling "blackout" of a dive-bomber pilot at the moment he pulls out of a dive, Frederick P. Dillon of Los...

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