SILENT PROPELLERS
PRISONER'S EXPERIMENTS LOS A\(i IvliKS, June 'IK Ait habitual criminal. Harry [version. aged 11, has been freed on a Loud in order to work on an invention for silencing aeroplane propellers. Scienti.sts of the California Institute of Technology and the chief test pilot of the Vulteo Aircraft Company had told the authorities that Kersteti'.s idea was sound, and a laboratory has been provided for his experiments. 1 Ker ten believes that the silencing j should be at the hub instead ol at the I blades, and while be was serving a three-year .sentence in the Kolsoin I'rison he made a model of a silent i huh which he submitted to the Governj incut. He said he would require six weeks to make another model for scientific tests. Th<> District Attorney, who vouched for the release of Kersten, said the invention. if it worked out, "would bo a tremendous aid in national defence."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23996, 20 June 1941, Page 8
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