Word: aircrafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engines, 15 hrs. of planes, 15 hrs. aerial navigation and meteorology. In the air, 50 hrs. flying time, of which 15 to 25 hrs. may be with instruction. For Transport License. On the ground, 25 hrs. of engine study, 30 of planes, 15 hrs. of meteorology, 10 hrs. of aircraft instruments and radio, 15 hrs. of aerial navigation. In the air, 200 hrs. flying time of which 35 to 50 hrs. may be with instructor. Curtiss Flying Service's tuition fees may be taken as a key for such costs: for private license (25-hr, course), $600; for limited...
...Manhattan last week Richard Farnsworth Hoyt and Frederick Brant Rentschler, two of the most potent U. S. air financiers, made plans to synchronize thousands of miles of airlines. Shortly it should be possible to air-tour over their systems-United Aircraft & Transport, and Aviation Corp. of the Americas, repectively-from Chicago to San Francisco, to Los Angeles, to Mexico City, thence to Miami and the West Indies, or to Panama and Ecuador. The deal to cooperate was consummated after many interruptions. United's Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies...
Respect arose from United's prominence in U. S. aircraft, for United is among the four most potent interlocked air organizations, is closely integrated with Manhattan's huge National City Bank of which Frederick Rentschler's elder brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler was elected President a fortnight ago (TIME, April...
What puzzled the Rentschler air mind was: Should the seven United Aircraft subsidiaries be operated as separate concerns, with United the holding company or should the seven be made divisions of a great United Aircraft concern like the General Motors divisions. But whether United Aircraft is a holding company or operating and manufacturing company makes no difference to stockholders...
...Continental Motors, who, with Lycoming, make almost all engines for motor car companies that do not make their own, last week announced its first aircraft motor, a seven-cylinder air-cooled radial. Lycoming also makes an aircraft motor...