Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already in the airplane manufacturing business through General Aviation Corp.'s ownership of Fokker Aircraft Corp., and its control of Pittsburgh Metal Airplane Co. Last week's transaction put G. M. into the transport field. President Harris M. Hanshue of Western Air did not confirm the rumor that G. M.'s 24% stock holding would give it control of the Western Air Line. Nevertheless, observers saw in the arrangement an assured outlet for General Motors (Fokker) planes, possibly a bitter struggle between G. M. and Ford Motor Co. for air supremacy...
Fair child Aviation Corp., outgrowth of Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. formed ten years ago by youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild, is a holding company held in turn, until last week, by Aviation Corp. It included Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corp., Fairchild Engine Corp., Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc., Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. and Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. Of late, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corp. and Fairchild Engine Corp. have operated at heavy losses; large expenditures would be necessary for experimentation and development of new products before the plants could be operated on a paying basis. Fairchild Aviation Corp. has not the money. Last...
Unwilling to await the Navy's decision, lay observers awarded the victory to the Blue forces whose aircraft had so damaged the Black ships that no effective landing was possible. Admiral Schofield's transports had been cut to bits; the decks of his battleships were shambles from air-bombs; his cruisers were barely afloat...
David Ingalls was overjoyed. His aircraft had beaten off battleships, saved the Canal, proved their worth. The performance of the Los Angeles so exceeded his expectations that he enthusiastically radioed the Navy Department in Washington that the necessity for continued development of lighter-than-aircraft had been conclusively proved. He contended that the "spot" the dirigible had made was important enough to justify her? and his?sacrifice...
...stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster, but he did not engage seriously in aviation until 1924. He founded Pit cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route...