Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlarge the U. S. Navy. Present savings will vanish if and when 188,500 tons of new "Treaty" cruisers are built. Of this total, 70,000 tons (seven cruisers) are now in construction or appropriated for. Also permitted by the Treaty are 56,300 tons of new aircraft carriers, of which 13,800 tons (one carrier) has so far been ordered by Congress...
Secretary Young listened attentively, pledged cooperation, but was not to be stampeded. Said he: "The present situation in the industry has not minimized in any way the necessity for airworthy aircraft . . . aircraft approved for license [still must be] known by the department to meet the minimum requirements of air-worthiness...
...Mail Bill was intended to combine the two services wherever possible. For those reasons Aviation Corp. last week yielded its Cleveland-Chicago passenger service (Universal Division) to National Air Transport, which carries the mail. N. A. T., which recently acquired Stout Air Lines (its sister subsidiary in United Aircraft & Transport), immediately placed in service a new fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate...
...officer). It has been "undertaken in order to provide a laboratory in which scientific research may go forward in that leisurely atmosphere so necessary to sound progress. The company will be unlimited in its scope in aeronautics. In other words we shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich...
When the War began, Mr. Lawrance was already attacking the problem of reducing the weight of aircraft engines, then all water-cooled. He enlisted in the Navy as a machinist's mate, was soon commissioned ensign and assigned by the Navy Department to aeronautical research. There he evolved the radial air-cooled motor which was to be the basic pattern for today's Whirlwinds...