Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Aircraft & Transport Corp...
Airways along the Pacific Coast are dotted with "service stations" marked by neon-lighted towers-aircraft fueling points erected by Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
Should that principle be universally applied, the effect would be equivalent to creating a fence 500 ft. high around every airport. And as approved aircraft have a minimum gliding ratio of 7-to-1, airmen have computed that 3,500 ft. would have to be added to each dimension of the present average airport for planes to clear the edges at the prescribed altitude...
...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...
...same reasons that air transportation is necessary to Canada (great area, scattered population) it is likely to be costly (long hauls, light passenger loads). Nevertheless the industry there has made tremendous strides since 1919 when a few military aircraft were released for civil works (TIME, Jan. 27). Of 88 companies engaged in commercial operations, ten are operating scheduled services over 6,984 mi. of airways. Last year Canada's air lines carried 86,242 paying passengers, 430,636 Ib. of mail, 3,903,908 Ib. of freight and express, flew...