Word: burnelli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goliaths. Giant planes of U. S. manufacture have met with bad luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near...
...decided he should get into aviation and he did. He made contact with Vincent J. Burnelli, 34, Texas-born plane designer, who calculated that he could design a monoplane's fuselage so that it would help in the flying lift...
...Chapman-Burnelli Airliner...
Financier Chapman supplied ample money. Designer Burnelli built, last week, their product. The biggest plane yet built in the U: S. flew about the Newark, N. J., airport with a dozen passengers at 165 m.p.h. It has seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...