Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...manager. In 1914 the U. S. Army Signal Corps made him its Chief Aeronautical Engineer. First thing he did was condemn all the Army's Wright and Curtiss pushers as unsafe to fly. After the War he founded his own company, built the world's first successful amphibian...
...Sexagenarian Herrick lay sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...
TIME airwriter erred. In TIME for Aug. 13, under Aeronautics, this appeared: ". . . it was the Sikorsky S-42, world's largest amphibian." The 542 is neither an amphibian nor the world's largest anything. It is the largest American-built flying boat and, beyond a doubt, outperforms any ship of its kind in the world, but that is all. World's largest amphibian is Sikorsky Model 540, better known as the Yankee and Caribbean Clippers. 542 will always be strictly a flying boat. TIME airwriter undoubtedly mistook beaching wheels for landing gear...
Neither the Sikorsky 540 nor 542 may correctly be called amphibian, as they never descend on land, have retractable landing gear which is used only when the boats are beached for overhauling. They are properly called flying boats...