Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piece of aluminum. And he has cooling packagssages those aluminum blocks that allows improved cooling and more power. So instead of a rotary engine, you know, doing 110, 120 horsepower, youre looking at 200 or 220 horsepower with these engines by the time theyre introduced in the spad xii. Theres always a technological pushpull over the western front in world war i, in which the germans have an advantage with their thick air foiled tubular steel fuselaged aircraft like the folker d 7 that you can se
Technology itself. This is what is the exciting tool for me, taking on that. To share that with visitors. You can watch this or any other programming, you can go to cspan. Org histo cspan. Org history. We are back live outside this stadium on the National Mall, president gerald ford did kated his museum. A america by hair of our earlierest day with air transportation and mail carers through the 1950s. It is all here. I want to sherianne argument that was nor Washington Post this week on the spear of lewis, one of the iconic same that karls lindbergh have. It was refurbished back in 1995. He saw you a moment ago. Talk about some interesting things you found over the last year or so. It is a true milestone. Charles lindbergh, hes epic. And so this stunt to redo the scatter and the flight gallery, look at this airport and seeing the elements and left by the poem who made the airline. They actual, the tour and from juunit as well as his unit. You showed us some of the art tracts on display
The immediate Hampton Roads area a little bit of Northern Neck middle peninsula way out for emporia and i ninety five and theres just not much out there with everything moving to the north and to get way down into southern and southeastern North Carolina a little of that rain will move in here later but again for this evening just some fog drizzle a little bit of mist out there and temperatures that will be climbing now course earlier this is liquid when she melted the snow added the rain on top of that about half an inch. Pretty common number there is you can see. So again it was around an inch of snow and then we ended up with rain on top that watched it all away look at how and when there is only up a little bit from yesterday but near the coastline almost thirty degrees. Thats the kind of warmer air thats coming in later on south easterly and southerly winds how warm will it get will it lead to thunderstorms how much rain we seem to cool off all those questions will be answered min
Landing in london. Damage. This time. We have the full story ahead. Ecuadors president has emergency following that weekend. More than 270 people have died. The toll is expected to rise since so many are still missing. More than 30,000 runners will take part today in the 120th running of the Boston Marathon. Its been three years since the bombing at the race. There will be about 5,000 Police Officers along the course to ensure safety. And if you havent filed your taxes yet, youve got less than 24 hours. The irs expected 5 million returns just today alone. Millions of requests for extensions, as well. Taxpayers in maine and massachusetts get one more day. Those are your top stories on then monday, april 18th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We are a nation of procrastinators. Last minute it sounds liking. , of course. Were going to get started with the alarming aviation news. A British Airways pilot reports his jet was hit by a drone as he was coming in for a landing in
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