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| | Contradictory Screws - TIME |
 | | Because he believes propeller speeds are nearing the upper limit of possible efficiency, an Italian engineer, Secondo Campini, has invented the first successful plane in aviation history to be propelled by a jet of compressed air. |
 | | Campini's plane sucks air into its cavernous nose, compresses and heats it in the fuselage, ejects it through the taila rocketlike principle, though it is not a real rocket plane, since the propelling jet is not a rush of gases supplied by combustion of the fuel. |
 | | Campini's plane weighs 11,000 lb., recently flew from Milan to Rome (300 miles) in 2¼ hours. |
| www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,766426,00.html (546 words) |
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