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...days and has been active in helping the present organization. Other graduates who have expressed interest are Godfrey L. Cabot, President of the National Aeronautical Association; and S. M. Fairchild '17, President of the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp., New York. Grover C. Loening, designer of the amphibian planes used by the Army in the South American flight, visited the airport in May, and inspected the club's ship
...They had covered some 17,000 miles, personally carried the "good will" of the U. S. to every Central and South American nation, arrived at the end of their long trip on scheduled time. Through tropic storms, landing in places where no plane had been before, four of these amphibian planes had made their way back home to prove that airplane travel is practicable in any place through every kind of weather. Over Buenos Aires two of the original six planes had crashed, two flyers were killed (TIME, Mar. 7). The rest continued their triumphant way. This week the "Good...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...amphibian planes, designed and constructed by Engineer Grover Loening, had boatlike hulls with wheels, for ground landings, which pulled up into niches, during water work...
...Central America, a half-dozen specks capable of landing on either land or water progressed southwards in hops and jumps. They were the six U. S. Army amphibian planes bearing their crews on the first legs of their proposed "friendship flight" around South America...