Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore from fulfilling a $2,000,000 deal with Russia for 20 bombing planes and an aircraft factory. As British trade representatives informally explained at the State Department, a war was raging in China with Reddish forces on one side (see p. 30), and more war threatened on the Afghanistan border just south of Eastern Russia. There thus seemed a good chance that the Martin planes...
Long before aviation was an accomplished fact, experimenters knew that the ideal airplane would rise vertically, hover at will, descend vertically, gently. For safety in commercial transport, for observation and bombardment by military aircraft, the value of such a ship is obvious. Millions have been spent in the U. S. and abroad, scores of models of helicopters* constructed without producing one craft which could reliably perform the essential maneuvers...
...Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For all of that labor, no helicopter was born...
Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore was a worthy "orphan" company rich in engineering talent and sales ability, poor in cash. North American Aviation, Inc. of New York is a holding company, affiliated with the potent Curtiss-Keys group, whose subsidiaries include Sperry Gyroscope Co., Eastern Air Transport (formerly Pitcairn), Ford Instrument Co. Last week "orphan" B-J won a secure home and assured backing for aircraft development by accepting a stock exchange offered by North American. Many a B-J engineer, including Vice President Temple N. Joyce, is a former Curtiss...
...expected that the Berliner-Joyce Co. will be developed similarly to the compact, conservative, painstaking Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica. Calif., whose trademark on aircraft is coming to be regarded as the equivalent of "Sterling" on silver...