Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made routine application to the State Board of Commerce & Navigation for permission to operate an amphibian service between Lake Hopatcong, popular resort, and New York. Last week leaders of the aviation industry, no less than Mr. Morgan, were astounded, then indignant to learn that permission was refused; moreover, that aircraft "will not be permitted to land on any New Jersey inland waters...
...Detroit Aircraft Corp., promoters of the demonstration, announced the device (developed by Russell Parachute Co.) might be optional equipment on some of their 1931 models. The experimental 'chute weighed less than 100 lb. Designers said a model weighing 130 to 160 lb. could be installed in heavy transport and mail planes...
...ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet. In the World War she convoyed transports, captured off Ensenada, Mexico, a shipload of German spies and U. S. draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date...
...capital it was in Chicago last week for the ten-day period of the National Air Races. Airmen & aircraft from all parts of the land were congregated in the city proper and at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport, Glenview, 16 mi. northwest of the Loop...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, strenuous president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., brother of National City Bank President Gordon Sohn Rentschler, became president of United's subsidiary Chance-Vought Corp., taking the place of the late designer-tycoon Chance Milton Vought...