Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last September Louis Breguet, prominent French aircraft maker, returned from Moscow to announce: "With ten times as many workers as has France, the Soviet factories are producing 20 times as many airplanes, motors and accessories as in France. I should estimate that there are 200,000 men employed in the two laboratories, the five aero-motor factories and the four principal aircraft factories. . . . Annual production of fully equipped airplanes is of the order of 5,000. . . . The technique is not very modern but it is to the point. The works directors are engineers of incontestable merit...
...also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, L. I., for two Seversky amphibians plus manufacturing rights. The Seversky amphibian holds the world amphibian speed record of 230.4 m.p.h...
Korvan Kruhovsky, chief engineer of Edo Aircraft Corp., which builds 90% of airplane floats and pontoons used...
Illya L Islamoff, factory manager for Bellanca Aircraft Corp...
Alexander Kartvelli, vice president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., formerly with Anthony Fokker...