Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft plant at Dearborn, Mich, is shut down except for repair work on planes now in operation. From that plant, which produced 300 tri-motors at $50,000 each for the past five years, only four new ships have emerged since Jan. 1. Prospects for new orders were slim because 1) airline expansion has ceased at least for the present; 2) big operators are abandoning Fords in favor of planes made by allied builders; 3) some operators believe that the Ford, basically unchanged since 1927, is obsolete...
...Alfred at 77 is one of Britain's great engineers. He attended his first British Association meeting when he was 12, wearing kilts. His recollection covers many "surprises that are common-places today: the dynamo, electric motor, transformer, rectifier, storage battery, incandescent lamp,* phonograph, telephone, internal combustion engine, aircraft, steam turbine, . . . wireless telegraphy, thermionic valve as receiver, as amplifier, as generator of electric waves . . . for broadcasting...
...Biggest vessels ever built in the U. S. are the Navy's aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each weighing 33,000 tons...
Asked a Liberal summer scholar: "Sir, do you think civilian aircraft should be abolished since they can easily be converted into weapons in wartime...
After a number of false starts characterized by high pressure promotion (gliding was once touted as the "salvation" of the U. S. aircraft industry), soaring is just beginning to get a foothold as a U. S. sport. In the third annual meet of the Soaring Society of America Inc. which ended at Elmira, N. Y. last week, flights were made which far surpassed previous U. S. records, but were still far short of Germany and Austria...