The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 78National Geographic Society, 1940 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... plane lands . Speed in Building Planes How rapidly can planes be built ? One com- pany today is turning out a completed military training plane every three hours . Bigger planes naturally take longer . Flat sheets of thin aluminum alloy ...
... plane lands . Speed in Building Planes How rapidly can planes be built ? One com- pany today is turning out a completed military training plane every three hours . Bigger planes naturally take longer . Flat sheets of thin aluminum alloy ...
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... plane glides in . We can turn on traffic lights if we want to keep planes off certain runways , and there's a searchlight we can throw anywhere . " The plane to which he had been talking was now down and taxiing toward us . " United 28 ...
... plane glides in . We can turn on traffic lights if we want to keep planes off certain runways , and there's a searchlight we can throw anywhere . " The plane to which he had been talking was now down and taxiing toward us . " United 28 ...
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... planes are now flying weekly . to New Zealand , and , eventually , will fly daily to Hawaii and " daily - except - Sunday " nonstop across the Atlantic . A 48 - hour schedule to Buenos Aires is on the way . Just before Christmas last ...
... planes are now flying weekly . to New Zealand , and , eventually , will fly daily to Hawaii and " daily - except - Sunday " nonstop across the Atlantic . A 48 - hour schedule to Buenos Aires is on the way . Just before Christmas last ...
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