Word: amphibianism
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...airplane sightseeing service to the pilot: "Do you think it's safe for landings?" Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took off for the landing field near Glenview north of the city...
...Amphibian planes are not expected to show extraordinary speed. Sleekness usually is sacrificed to seaworthiness and to a design by which engine & propeller are mounted high above the waterline to keep them dry. Also the apparatus for alternating pontoons and landing wheels is heavy, resistant. Hence it was news last week when Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, now a major in the U. S. air corps reserve, revealed details of a racing amphibian which he is completing at College Point...
...aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both...
...sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three enlisted men. A Coast Guard amphibian picked up the blimp's commander, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins, but he was beyond revival. The body of Machinist's Mate Pasquale Bettio was found later...
William Randolph ("Young Bill") Hearst Jr. owns an amphibian plane which he allows to do double duty for his father's New York American and New York Evening Journal. Last week he sent it out, carrying a reporter and cameraman, to find a schooner missing in storm-swept Long Island Sound with eight men and two women aboard. The plane spotted the passengers & crew marooned at a lighthouse. Boasted the American: N. Y AMERICAN PLANE FINDS 10 LOST IN BOAT. Shouted the Journal: 10 TELL JOURNAL PLANE RESCUE. Of all other Manhattan papers, only the conscientious Times bothered...