Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime basis for the demand was that he had procured Army aircraft through negotiated contract instead of competitive bids. Among other things, he was charged with "dishonesty, gross misconduct, inefficiency, inaccuracy, unreliability, incompetency, mismanagement." Major General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, promptly stripped General Foulois of most of his powers, turned them over to Lieut.-Colonel Frank Maxwell Andrews as commander of the newly-organized General Headquarters Air Force...
...Acosta was fined $10 for throwing empty liquor bottles at passersby. Same year, he was arrested for tipsy driving but later exonerated. Backed by ex-Junkman Charles Levine, he started Acosta Aircraft Corp., was charged by New York with selling stock fraudulently. When his wife sued another woman for alienation of affections, and Acosta was named corespondent in a divorce suit, a New York Supreme Court Justice growled: "If it could be arranged to keep this aviator in the air at all times, it would be safer for the homes in this community...
...FederaI regulations permit unlicensed airmen to fly unlicensed aircraft...
...last things Test Pilot James H. ("Jimmy") Collins did before his final, fatal power dive was to list the crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
...Plymouth engines cost about $150-one-tenth the price of an aircraft engine of similar power. The weight is about double. Several manufacturers, notably Wiley Post Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma, have experimented with the Ford 4-cyl. engine for airplane use. Others have tried motorcycle engines. Month ago a midget plane called Drone, powered with a 16-h. p. motorcycle engine, caused a mild sensation in London (TIME, May 6). Last week Austrian Pilot Robert Kronfeld flew from London to Paris, at a fuel cost of $1.47, in a glider with a 5-h. p. motorcycle engine...