Word: amphibion
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...From San Juan, Puerto Rico, went the huge Army Douglas amphibion Duck, covering the 919 miles in 7 hr. 12 min. to win another world record, for airline distance for amphibions...
...Died. Lieut. Elliott McFarlane Moore, U. S. Naval Reserve. 31, son-in-law of the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett (chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics who died in the Akron disaster), director of Wilmington-Catalina Airline. Ltd.; of injuries suffered when a W.C. A. ten-passenger amphibion plane, taking off for the California mainland, capsized a half-mile from Catalina Island, killing the copilot, injuring the pilot...
...president, pulled his company out of Avco, began quietly to build it up again by producing "flivver" planes. His losses last year were only $52.000. Last week Fairchild popped smartly back into the news with an announcement that it had contracted to build the world's fastest commercial amphibion. The Fairchild amphibion was designed for Pan American Airways which ordered six for $217,680. It will be a single-motor, eight-passenger monoplane for use over sheltered waters and rivers on Pan American's foreign routes. Its top speed is specified at 180 m. p. h., about...
...hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook, N. F., about 500 mi. short of the goal. There he had to wait for a special train to arrive with more fuel. There he was passed by crack Pilot Robert H. Fogg, flying an open biplane with a Paramount cameraman. Pilot Fogg (who, like...
...plant now employs over 800 men. . . . 6) That Great Lakes is a recognized source of supply for the U. S. Army and Navy, and was recently awarded a contract by the latter for some $750,000 worth of airplanes, floats, and spares. 7) That Great Lakes does indeed produce amphibions (note spelling) and cabin ships in "small numbers"-in fact, no numbers at all, although it has built an experimental amphibion. . . . 8) That, unless the basis for comparison be automobiles or some similar commodity, the present rate of production on the well-known Great Lakes Sport Trainer could hardly...
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