The Archive · 1928

Ow Cooling Plan for Planes

Important System to Increase 'Machines' Speed advancing at the rate of four yards an hour, The main stream is now only 20 yards from the railway-bridge at Mascali, at the foot of Int.

Etna.

The eruption of DBMt, Ftna has redoubled in intensity. The stream of lava has reached the sea, made a breach in the Catania-Messina Railway, and invaded the villages of Nunziata and Carrabba, both of which are doomed, The Eruption Continues Noy, 11. entire engine but lets in sufi to cool the cylinders. The fat the rear of the cowling in a streamline around the fuselage, thus cutting down the air resistance, Ina test the use of the new cowlinge increased the speed of a small Army machine by nineteen miles an hour.—Reuter.

A. communique issued by the Voleanological Institute states that, owing to bad weather, there have been no reconnaissance flights tempted over the eruptive area of Int. Etna, Yesterday the evacuation of the lower part of Nunziata was completed with the aid of soldiers. Passage along the road to San. Giovanni and Campobello was made possible by tearing down walls and building dams with the stones.

The principal stream of lava continues to advance towards the sea. at!

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