“If an aircraft didn’t actually need to take off from the water but was ‘launched’ at flying speed, it might carry enough fuel to cross the Atlantic as well as a useful payload of mail,” says British aviation enthusiast Don Goodsell. The Mercury and the Maia were developed together to solve this problem. Carrying enough fuel to make a transatlantic flight (in addition to the mail) made it too heavy to achieve takeoff. While many parasite airplanes were attached to their hosts because they couldn’t travel far, the 51-foot-long Short S.20 could go the distance-it just couldn’t get off the ground. It landed in Montreal 20 hours, 20 minutes after takeoff. It was a monumental day for aviation: The Mercury had become the first heavier-than-air commercial aircraft to cross the ocean, and in record time. The next day, the front page of the New York Times bore the headline: “ ‘Pickaback’ Plane Spans Atlantic After Take-Off From Bigger Craft.”
Wilcockson, pilot of the Short S.21 Maia seaplane.īennett counted to three, then yelled, “Go!” Both men pulled a release lever, and Bennett was on his way toward Canada. Bennett, seated in a Short S.20 Mercury mailplane. It’s Wednesday, July 20, 1938, and a short but calculated conversation was taking place over Foynes, Ireland. Pictured above: The mailplane Mercury hops aboard a seaplane. See the gallery above for more of our favorites. Only a few, like the Maia and Mercury shown here (details below) had long, storied relationships.
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Often, the pair did not strike the right balance others became obsolete before full testing was finished. Yet some of these “composite aircraft” were ingenious solutions to the problem of getting a payload to a faraway or otherwise difficult-to-reach destination.Īs with all experimental aviation, the most memorable parasite airplanes weren’t necessarily the most successful. The surprise is that any carrier-parasite pairs were successful. The piggyback rides or kangaroo pouch-like transport flights, during which a mothership drags along a smaller parasite airplane, have the daffy quality of Buster Keaton silent-action gags-and a similar success rate. I've tried restarting Outlook, running Quick Repair on Office 365, rebooting the computer, launching Outlook in Safe mode, messing with the View.nothing has allowed me to reset my Inbox to how I'd like it to be.Īny ideas for anything else I can try? Thanks.From today’s perspective, when in-flight refueling has long been routine, the early attempts to get airplanes to fly farther than their own gas tanks would take them seem almost comically desperate.
The Search field, and the font size of the sender and subject of the message have changed-they used to be on 2 lines, now they're on one line and the font size is smaller.Īnd here's what my Inbox USED to look like, which is how I'd like to get it back to (this is now how my Sent folder appears):Īs noted, I tried creating a view of the Sent folder, then apply it to my Inbox folder, but that caused all emails to display by "Sent To" as the default view rather than Sent From, and I couldn't get that to change and stick each time I'd close My "sort by" dropdown has disappeared (top-left blank area, as has the "Newest/Oldest" text and sorting arrow. I've outlined in red things that have changed. however, all emails were displaying in order of who they were sent to, rather than who I tried saving that view as a new view, then applying it to the Inbox, which got me close to what I wanted. The view in my Sent folder is what I'd like the Inbox to be. I tried resetting the view, but that changed it to something other than what it used to be. My Outlook Inbox view suddenly changed the last time I opened Outlook (using Office 365 ProPlus, version.
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