Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Factors. Any quantitative estimate must be corrected not so much for qualitative factors-although these are important-as in the light of how rapidly each great power is increasing its yearly or monthly production of reasonably effective fighting aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain...
...hrer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been...
...aviation enthusiast since 1928, Dr. Norcross, in the last two years, has visited all the large aircraft factories, air-ports and flying schools, has conferred with heads of most U. S. airlines, studied facts and figures on the growth of U. S. aviation since 1927, when airlines employed only 462 persons. Some of his findings...
...Workers in aviation manufacture get 37? an hour as apprentices, as much as $350 monthly as foremen. Aircraft maintenance mechanics get 40? to 80? an hour, are required to be certified by the U. S. Government...
...propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions. But Air Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure proper control of an aircraft at low altitude, there are only two kinds of pilots: 1) the quick, 2) the dead." Says Publisher Collins: "No sane man can read Air Facts and then stunt at 500 feet...