Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became convinced that one day cabin and transport planes would be as indispensable to the average man as automobiles. He set out to be a Mercury to the middle classes, to provide motion above the ground as well as on it for lower prices. In 1929 he acquired Stinson Aircraft Corp., again by an exchange of stock. This time, though, it was not Auburn stock he offered but the common of Cord Corp.. a holding company he had formed earlier in the year to centralize his growing activities. Under Cord the Stinson company has done well. Last year...
...with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary private pilot's license which entitled him to fly any licensed aircraft...
...last year, and has been in her shed ever since. Following the catastrophic crash of the R-101, the R-100 fell victim to an economy program. After all the metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts mourned the R-101's end, which, they felt, would also sound the knell of the government-operated Cardington dirigible plant and throw many a skilled technician out of work. The U.S. Navy has offered to take over a portion of British airship personnel, keep it in training...
...immediately went President T. Higbee Embry of Embry-Riddle Co. (aircraft), presented it with three giant iguanas, guaranteed to be worth the price of admission...
...charge. Riding down the Chinese front line they cut a swath into which Japanese infantry poured pell mell, yelling. General Ma's right flank held at first. Chinese cavalry tried to encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across the frozen steppes...