Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student (meaning a prospective plane purchaser) be allowed to receive dual flight instruction from any transport pilot without a permit or physical examination; 2) that the cost of medical examination for private license be cut; 3) that the department resume its former practice of inspecting and test-flying aircraft at the respective plants instead of at only eight designated stations in the U. S.; 4) that the manufacturer be allowed to make minor changes in design without constantly seeking department approval; 5) that the department withdraw its proposed performance requirements for all planes which would demand, among other things...
...Spencer Smith, president of the Board of Commerce & Navigation, stated his case: inland lakes are constantly used by small boats. Aircraft taking off and alighting endanger the lives of the boaters. The ban does not extend to rivers...
...heels of Avco's semi-annual statement came announcement by Post- master General Walter Folger Brown that the contract for the new southern transcontinental airmail route was awarded to the sole bidder?Aviation Corp. (through its subsidiary, Robertson Aircraft Corp.) bidding jointly with Southwest Air Fast Express (TIME, Sept...
Operation of the route, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, will be started within 30 days. Until lighting of the airway is completed, transcontinental mail must be held overnight at Dallas. President Coburn last week gave no credence to a report that a merger involving Robertson Aircraft and S. A. F. E. might follow the awarding of the contract. But the rumor persisted...
...term "flying wing", connoting the ideal aircraft with head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird...