Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another world speed record was made last week by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...term "Baby Clipper" was first used in news stories on May 3 describing the new Fairchild high-speed amphibian, fastest single-engine amphibian transport in the world...
...rate, the term "Baby Clipper" was applied first to the Fairchild amphibian when the first of a fleet of six for Pan American Airways was announced. [It was designed . . . to meet special operating requirements which exist along certain river routes. CHARLES H. GALE...
...Mechanic Albert Morvay got the ailing engine working again by "wabbling" fuel with a hand pump. Capt. Sergievsky brought the ship down nine minutes later. Said he, trembling: "This is the first time in the history of aviation that a multi-motored seaplane or amphibian has taken off from the water on one engine...