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...great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman...
...only one virginitie to lose And where ye lose it, There your hearts will be. The heart of Chicago's Joseph Medill Patterson, is in the air. Thus, a month ago, he wrote the above Kipling (with emendations) for his nickel Liberty. Then he boarded his $75.000 Sikorsky amphibian, Liberty, flew to the Caribbean (TIME, Dec. 10). With him flew a vivacious married daughter, Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father's Manhattan tabloid (Daily News) to dancing with Chicago's eligibles. He also took Lieut. Frederick Becker as pilot, Engineer...
While Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle...
...Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin saloon. Dexterously swimming and fire-extinguishing, they saved the amphibian. Two days later the Liberty left San Juan, bound back for Port-au-Prince. Radioman Roe stayed behind, his eyebrows singed away, his face and arms stinging...
Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. New York, N. Y. / Amphibian / Commercial & military Amphibians / . . . . .$27,900 / Major Herbert A Dargue, U. S. Air Corps, used five Loening Amphibians in his Pan-American flight...