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...planes are those she has bought abroad and adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been outmaneuvered by Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Aviation | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Magallenes is now at the beginning of summer, only time the new airline will be able to function. Operated by Linea Airea Nacional of Chile, the route, an extension of the present Santiago-Puerto Montt Service, will be flown by two Dornier flying boats and a Loening amphibian in addition to the new Sikorskys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: South to Magallenes | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...built his first plane because he could not find one that suited him for photographic work, starting commercial production in 1926. During Depression engine and aircraft sales shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders is now on the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fairchild Fission | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...universe-a theory for which Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Highbrows at Harvard | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice for $1,000,000. Lately he has made a hobby of aviation, become a pilot himself. Last year he set a world amphibian altitude record, since bettered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Types | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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