Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, prime Hero of the U. S., is well used but by no means resigned to the idolatry of his public. When he landed in Havana from British Honduras one evening last week in a Sikorsky amphibian, he eyed the thronging newsgatherers more moodily than ever. He knew their eagerness this time was not solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence...
Bell stated last night that Grover Loening, designer and builder of amphibian planes, who last year sponsored an intercollegiate altitude contest which was cancelled because of lack of competitors, is now working on plans for a new contest. Although no details will be announced for several months, it is understood that the new competition will take the form of a contest covering a year of flight in which the best records and development during that period will determine the winner. Last year Mr. Loening offered several substantial cash prizes for the winning airmen and it is believed that he will...
...great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman...
While Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle...
...Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin saloon. Dexterously swimming and fire-extinguishing, they saved the amphibian. Two days later the Liberty left San Juan, bound back for Port-au-Prince. Radioman Roe stayed behind, his eyebrows singed away, his face and arms stinging...