Word: archbold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager of the new F.O., got him on the radio telephone, told him he was wanted...
...Heinkel 113 single-motored one-seater ready for the finals, specially equipped for night work and with extra-wide under carriage designed for rough landings. Guba and Mercenaries. Busy little Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, kept his show in the headlines by buying .New York Oil Tycoon Richard Archbold's 14-ton Consolidated flying boat, the Guba, fitted for tropical exploration, and engaging famed U. S. Pilot Clyde Pangborn to shuttle it back & forth across the Atlantic with three-and-a-half-ton loads of aluminum for British aircraft factories. Pilot Pangborn appeared last week at Oakland, Calif...