Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four square miles...
Though all but two members of the Macon's crew survived the disaster, public opinion turned strongly, swiftly against further experimentation with this type of aircraft. President Roosevelt summed it up when he announced that the U. S. would hereafter leave the development of dirigibles to Germany. Instead of replacing the Macon, he would put the same money into 50 long-range scouting planes. Utterly blasted was the long-cherished hope of raising U. S. capital, of winning U. S. public confidence for U. S. dirigibles in commercial service...
Thus came to an end a $100,000,000 adventure by the U. S. with lighter- than-aircraft. Other countries have fared little better. France abandoned lighter-than-aircraft after the German-built Dixmude was lost with all hands in a Mediterranean storm in 1923. When Britain's R-101 crashed at Beauvais, France in 1933, wiping out the best of that country's lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate...
...Procurement of military aircraft by negotiated contract where competitive bidding would mean undesirable delay...
Squarely behind the Mayo Composite Aircraft is the British Air Ministry, which believes it will not only revolutionize long-range ocean flying but may well be of incalculable military value...