Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps tests in its present search for an advanced type training plane. Two of the entries were from factories which have long supplied the Army with good planes (North American, Northrop). They were therefore less interesting to onlookers than the third competitor, a stubby little monoplane entered by Seversky Aircraft Corp., a five-year-old firm which in the past twelvemonth has mushroomed from almost nothing to top-notch military importance...
...Seversky Aircraft Corp. is named for its 42-year-old founder, president, chief designer and test pilot, Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky. A short, slim, kinky-haired Russian, "Sascha" de Seversky became a flyer in the Russian Navy during the War, lost his right leg in his first engagement, came back from the hospital to shoot down 13 German planes. Awarded the highest military honors, he was equally renowned for inventing a combination pontoon and ski which allowed Russian Naval planes to continue in service during winter. Just as the Revolution started, he was appointed to an aviation commission...
During its first three years, Seversky Aircraft did little but experiment. It developed such inventions of its founder as the mechanism generally used for mid-air refueling and the automatic bomb sight now adopted by the U. S. and Great Britain. In 1933 Inventor Seversky began toying with ambitious- amphibian ideas, produced a plane which could land on snow, water or land. By last year he had developed this chunky, all-metal, single-motored monoplane so well that in it he set a world speed record for amphibians (230.4 m.p.h...
With that comradeship which makes aviators of the world virtually an international elite, with the common herd of groundfolk more or less at their future mercy, German war aircraft factories opened to Colonel Lindbergh. He was permitted to inspect and fly German bombers. He learned enough German secrets to have hanged him ten times over had he been a Jew instead of the most popular of Nordics...
...advance of their arrival, Pacification Commissioner General Yu got his hands on 300 Kwangtung fighting planes, two large arsenals, an airplane factory, half a million rifles, vast ammunition stores, anti-aircraft guns and tanks. Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called...