Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer was recently given in the British magazine, The Aeroplane, by its expert, temperish editor and founder, Charles Grey Grey. As editor of the standard handbook, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mr. Grey is also the world's No. 1 air authority. As a trained engineer fascinated by the science of war, he is emphatically anti-French and pro-German. He opened his opinion of France's air establishment with a wild blast against France's case against Germany at the London Locarno Conference...
Editor Grey's own Jane's All the World's Aircraft for 1935 says: "One of the greatest difficulties with which we have had to contend ... is the steady growth of a policy of secrecy on the part of the Navy, Army and Air Service Authorities of all nations." He lists the present French air force effectives available for European service at 1,127; the British...
None of this was known by the firm's floor member, Jerome T. Meighan. who is not to be confused with Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, now being questioned by the Securities & Exchange Commission for alleged manipulation of stock in Bellanca Aircraft. Apparently responsible for the McCaffray finagling was Managing Partner William H. Hosford, who resigned last month. As soon as Floor Member Meighan learned about his partner's activities, he reported them to Stock Exchange authorities...
...Government might frown upon (TIME, March 16). From the Air Transport Association of America's headquarters in Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
...Pratt & Whitney airplane engines are made by United Aircraft Corp., which bought out the Pratt & Whitney engine-building affiliate...