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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good names in Italian aviation are Donati, Caproni and Stella. Renato Donati is a War flyer who has been breaking altitude records for light planes since 1927. Caproni is one of the most important builders of Italian military aircraft. Stella is a type of engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella...
Leaning back in his chair on the sunny veranda of his mansion in Virginia whence he flies to Washington at frequent, intervals to confer with the President, General Mitchell took off his campaign hat and mopped his brow. "The trouble with aircraft companies in this country," he resumed, "is that they compete in terms of dollars and not of airplanes. If we had gone at it right, we could have airplanzed the world just as we motorized it. But now the European nations have achieved a big lead over us. The army Air Force is in terrible condition: they have...
...banish aircraft stocks from the market. An industry that has to be subsidized by the government shouldn't be allowed to become speculator's material, and the industry certainly cannot support itself without government aid. Of course the ideal thing to do is to consolidate the military, naval, and commercial branches all under one head, and thus get things done efficiently. The President, I believe, could do this any time he saw fit, and I shouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen...
...course are given the designation "Naval Aviators" and receive commissions as Ensigns in the U. S. Naval Reserve or as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and may be ordered to active duty. Those in the Naval Reserve take their active duty with the Fleet, usually on an aircraft carrier, while the Marine Corps Reservists serve with the Marine Expeditionary Forces at Quantico, Virginia, or San Diego, California...
First break in the situation came from potent ($39,000,000) United Aircraft & Transport Corp., whose President Philip G. Johnson announced decision to reorganize in order to bid for future mail rights.* In line with the Administration's wishes, United's big operating unit (United Air Lines) will be divorced from manufacturing subsidiaries (Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, et al.). In announcing the change President Johnson gravely protested cancellation of his company's mail contracts last February...