Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make passengers feel at home, there will be steam heating, air conditioning, running water, electric cooking aparatus. A dictaphone will be supplied to the executive who cannot waste time while traveling at 240 m.p.h...
...United We Fly." DC-4 is Donald Douglas' big baby, but three years ago it was a gleam in another man's eye. William A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, is a small man, quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks. Between the desks, in a swivel chair with well-oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing...
...September 1935 that United's Patterson went to competitors with his appeal: "United we fly, divided we los.e money." Six months later United, Transcontinental & Western Air, American, Eastern and Pan American signed a contract, crux of which was that for 18 months none of them would invest in any four-motored air transport between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come...
...experimental DC-4 which will take to the air next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every...
...professor than a boss. His first job with Douglas was filing fittings; now he is chief engineer. Harry Wetzel, general manager and the closest thing to a hard-hitting executive in the organization, studied industrial engineering at Penn State, subsequently served as aircraft production engineer in the U. S. Air Corps. Carl Cover, vice president for sales, had little to do with building DC-4, but in accordance with Douglas tradition, he will fly the ship on her tests next week...