Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
...test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
...Bridgeport, Conn, last week Sikorsky Aviation Corp. revealed to newsmen the nearly completed hulls of two 40-passenger amphibians being built for Central and South American routes of Pan American Airways, Inc. The planes will be the largest amphibians in the world, the only larger heavier-than-air craft being the Dornier DO-X and the Junkers G-38. Powered by four 575 h.p. Hornet engines, the 8-40 is designed to fly nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common...
Marshall Field III and his bride of two months (former Mrs. Dudley Coats of London), honeymooning through Africa in an amphibian airplane which crashed in the surf at Sidi Barrani on its way to them three weeks ago, crashed last week 850 mi. south of Khartoun en route to Kenya Colony. All escaped injury...
...Jersey recently one Frank A. Morgan made routine application to the State Board of Commerce & Navigation for permission to operate an amphibian service between Lake Hopatcong, popular resort, and New York. Last week leaders of the aviation industry, no less than Mr. Morgan, were astounded, then indignant to learn that permission was refused; moreover, that aircraft "will not be permitted to land on any New Jersey inland waters...