Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the biggest flying boat was stumbling on her way to the U. S. last week, the biggest amphibian went up for the first time and the biggest land plane came unhappily down...
...amphibian was the 45-seater Sikorsky 8-40, abuilding the past 20 months at Bridgeport, Conn, for Pan American Airways Inc. Her four 575-h. p. Hornet motors lifted her off the water after a run of only...
Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson,* chief backer of Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's Matto Grosso expedition, was at Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
Engine. Over Lake Erie flew an amphibian of Transamerican Air Line, bound from Cleveland for Detroit. The engine tore partly loose from its mounting, caught fire. Pilot Otis Beard "sat her down" on the water, put out the fire, signaled to a Coast Guard boat for a tow. His four passengers, too, continued...
...Horse Island, Pilot Robert Fogg and his photographer had worked all night in the biting cold, improvising repairs, and raced home next day to Associated Press and Paramount News with first news pictures of the Viking disaster (TIME, March 23 and 30). From the other plane, a Sikorsky amphibian, ice-wise Bernt Balchen and two companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion...