ARUP

A large contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently to a landing of only 23 m.p.h. First to congratulate Pilot Doolittle was a South Bend foot doctor named Cloyd Lawrence Snyder, inventor of the machine which he had named the ARUP ("air" and "up"). Doolittle had flown it some ten hours before but not in public.

For several years Dr. Snyder has toyed with the idea of a complete flying wing, experimenting with models affixed to the front or top of his automobile. A high-school teacher of mechanics helped him build a wind tunnel, and last year he picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane of equivalent power. He imagines a big, high-powered ARUP carrying unprecedented loads at undreamed-of speeds, even into the stratosphere.

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