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...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...
...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...
...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...