Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passenger traffic has become a more significant phenomenon than airmail or air express. The first passenger in a heavier than air machine was one Charles Furnas, employe of the Wright brothers. As everyone knows they were first to fly successfully, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903. A few months prior, the late great Samuel Pierpoint Langley's plane had failed to take the air successfully at Widewater, Va., on the Potomac...
...possible for an air traveler to fly completely around the country for an average cost of 9? per mile. The longest air line and at present the only transcontinental one is the Boeing Air Transport. Its Chicago-San Francisco run is 1,943 mi. Its nearest overland competitor is Pacific Air Transport's Seattle-Los Angeles...
...mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought into United Aircraft & Air Transport Corp. Mr. Boeing is chairman of that corporation...
Appended is a timetable whereby the air traveler may calculate the distances, time, stops, costs of U. S. air journeying. Inspection has shown that schedules are closely kept...
...indicated is the Transcontinental Air Transport system which is promised to go into effect this summer. T. A. T. is the hook-up of the Pennsylvania and Santa Fe railroads with planes. Passengers will take an overnight train from New York to Columbus, Ohio. Thence they will go by air to Waynoka, Okla. From Waynoka to Clovis, N. M. is a one-night train ride. Thence planes go to Los Angeles and San Francisco...