Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over, and there was no indication whether the plane was on land or sea, south or north of Howland, the greatest rescue expedition in flying history speedily got under way at huge expense. From Hawaii at forced draft steamed the battleship Colorado, from San Diego four destroyers and the aircraft carrier Lexington with 72 planes, from Japan vessels of the Japanese fishing fleet. At week's end no one knew whether Miss Earhart was another Kingsford-Smith, who was lost forever in the Bay of Bengal, or another Ellsworth, who was found snug and happy in Antarctica after...
...arrangements as to Spain have never prevented either the Rightists or the Leftists from bringing through its purely technical cordon of observers and warships absolutely all the men, munitions and aircraft they could afford to buy and manage to sneak past their enemies. The neutral cordon has jurisdiction only over "non-Spanish ships" and in practice a Spanish ship has been anything flying either a Leftist or a Rightist flag. Chronic last week were such cases as the troopships which arrive from Italy flying the Italian flag and escorted by Italian destroyers. hoist the Spanish flag as they enter Spanish...
...into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time more than 100 ships were going for each other in the sky, ten were shot down, and it had been sufficiently demonstrated that the Leftists have a fine stable of aircraft in reserve which Moscow is saving to defend Madrid rather than wasting them in the defense of Bilbao and Santander...
With all the drop hammers of the world pounding on the anvils of war, the U.S.A. is not the quietest member of the chorus. Last week the U. S. Army placed the largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
...Comparable figures according to estimates in the Aircraft Yearbook for 1937: Japan, 2,000; U. S., 2,200; Germany, 3,000; Italy, 3,200; France, 3,600; England...