Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theoretical coalition of foreign powers had vanquished overnight the U. S. Battle and Scouting Fleets, destroyed the Panama Canal, was about to loose a fleet of planes on New York from aircraft carriers. The actual enemy was again bad weather...
...past year, said Secretary Young, transport planes flew 40,080,000 miles, carried 418,000 passengers, 9,100,000 Ib. of mail, 3,250,000 Ib. of express. Forty-four companies, operating 125 routes, fly 650 aircraft valued at $14,000,000. In miscellaneous (other than transport) operations, 2,200,000 persons flew during the year...
...evenings it disintegrated, scattered down to rest for the night. For the first time, the Army had mustered its entire air strength for maneuvers. The 672 green-bodied, yellow-winged planes-205 pursuit, 335 observation, 51 attack, 36 bombardment, 45 transport-composed the greatest peacetime concentration of aircraft in U. S. history...
...Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt 778 3 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron 630 656 Poor & Co. (railroad equipment) 629 211 Shell Union Oil 3,155 D 9,903 D Simms Petroleum 37 D 396 D Standard Oil of Calif. 9,430 4,368 Timken Roller Bearing 3,106 1,314 United Aircraft & Transport 900 806 White Rock...
...civil aircraft flew 76,545,035 mi. in the six months, a decrease from the same period in 1929 caused by a falling off in private flying. There were 1,163 accidents, one for every 67,536 mi. of flight. But only 47 of those accidents involved transport planes. Fatal accidents in miscellaneous flights were 160, resulting in 258 deaths. In the three fatal crashes of transport planes, three pilots and two passengers were killed...