Word: amphibianism
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Prizefighter Gene Tunney a year ago flew in a Sikorsky Amphibian the 150 miles from Speculator, N. Y., to New York City. To insure his life for $300,000 and the plane for $30,000 during the single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another company might have charged more, another less. No one knows what is a fair rate for aviation insurance risks. Whatever standards exist are constantly fluctuating and depend on a multitude of conditions and contingencies. To help the insurance companies fix standards the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were the trimotored Fords, Fokkers, Boeings and Kreutzers (a new Los Angeles product) and the twin-engined Sikorsky amphibian. Notable for the interest they excited in visitors and the sales they engendered were...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, prime Hero of the U. S., is well used but by no means resigned to the idolatry of his public. When he landed in Havana from British Honduras one evening last week in a Sikorsky amphibian, he eyed the thronging newsgatherers more moodily than ever. He knew their eagerness this time was not solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence...
Bell stated last night that Grover Loening, designer and builder of amphibian planes, who last year sponsored an intercollegiate altitude contest which was cancelled because of lack of competitors, is now working on plans for a new contest. Although no details will be announced for several months, it is understood that the new competition will take the form of a contest covering a year of flight in which the best records and development during that period will determine the winner. Last year Mr. Loening offered several substantial cash prizes for the winning airmen and it is believed that he will...