298 | John W. Warner IV Bea walked up a mobile stairway and inspected the Autogyros cockpit. A whirlybird. British RAF desert markings, is nothing sacred? From below Klemperer scolded: Our new observation aircraft. And by the way, I read the Gebirgsjager reports from Oslo in your file. Your stolen Heinkel reportedly had both German and British markings. Who thought of that folly? Arms were crossed. Well, we were in a damned hurry to leave Norway that day… Annoying bastard. Hes got a point, shrugged Bernie. Alice added: Amelia Earhart wouldnt have made that mistake if she Oh, do shut the hell up, the lot of you. Schafer waved his arm. Let us catch up with our esteemed professors, shall we? Porsche and his engineer unloaded a large crate with help from two Luftwaffe crewmen. Inside were horseshoe-shaped electromagnets of thirty kilos each, specially- made by hand at his Stuttgart design works. I copied these as per specifications. A pain. No, a nightmare. Too many rare earth elements, a strange design. I felt like a medieval alchemist. No one can build powerful and exotic magnets like you and your wizards, Herr Professor. Just think, the propshaft has no contact with its electromagnetic bearings. It floats on a sea of magnetism. No wear. No burnt bearings, said his Kriegsmarine assistant, Banner. Just think, a potential 10,000 revs. Porsche marveled at it. Each magnet must be aligned perfectly with a micrometer and welded into place. Whoever those ancients were, they were damned good engineers. Hand me that instrument, the one with the indicator on it. He adjusted it. Thirty-six microns exactly. An arc welder with goggles then attached the magnet. A Luftwaffe flight engineer asked: Herr Porsche, will it be able to handle the extra power? No one has yet been able to Jacket off, tie loose, he replied: Of course! You newfangled Luftwaffe boys remind me of your Austro-Hungarian forebears in the last waralways doubting my work. Ive done the calculations over and over in my head. The hollow propshaft is made of the strongest steel alloy Krupps make. At two-thirds of a meter in width, it had better