Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race, which was to be held over The Solent; nor would it allow Royal Air Force planes and pilots (the winners in 1929) to take part. Reason: The event does not justify spending the required $400,000 in these hard times. Result: The Aero Club and the civil aircraft industry face the whole task of raising the funds and building three racing planes-a task which observers last week deemed impossible...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. was made a director of Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. In Hartford is U. A. T.-controlled Pratt & Whitney Aircraft...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...
...phase of the Army Air Corps program is to be able to send officers and supplies to any Army base in the U. S. or its near possessions in ten hours. Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built...
Reading your most excellent publication from cover to cover each week, I have been much surprised that you have failed to note and report the recent change of presidents of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., Detroit, Mich., probably one of the largest of its kind...