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...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant at Burbank, Calif., will ship to England, possibly within a year, the first of 200 eleven-passenger airliners, valued at some $18,000,000, which will be converted into reconnaissance machines. Fitted with two 800-horsepower motors, capable of a top speed of 250 miles an hour, these Lockheeds will be far superior to the present Royal Air Force reconnaissance ships, the Avro Anson, with a maximum speed of 188, and the Blackburn Shark, with a maximum of 152. Two hundred North American BT-9B type, low-winged, single-motored monoplanes with a top speed...
Just 27 minutes earlier, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Pilot Sidney Willey took off from Burbank in foggy weather, with instructions to deliver the brand-new 14 to Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight...
Winthrop's crew, stroked by Dave Shepard, lists Dave Stiles at seven, Bill Rechier at six, Pierce Butler at five, Lyman Burbank at four, Leo Randol at three, Bill Fletcher at two, Eric Clark at one, and Berb Barrett...
...straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time to his garden in Berkeley as to his teaching at the University of California...
...Affirmative team were selected: Lyman B. Burbank '38, Stanley M. Epstein '39, Rending T. Fels '39, Robert H. Goldman '39, Edwin C. Hoyt '38, Donald McDonald '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and John Weston...