Word: caa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm and enthusiastic greeting from our friends 'down under' who welcomed the California Clipper as a precursor of an air service putting New Zealand within four days of the United States." When she gets her CAA certificate, she will start a bi-monthly service, reinforced by the Honolulu and American Clippers...
...acres; rich Chicago Manufacturer Frank J. Lewis financed 14 roomy buildings (the gymnasium is a memorial to son Joseph, killed in a plane crash). By this year's end, air-minded Bishop Sheil expects to have three more big runways, a 180-acre improved landing field, an approved CAA flying school rating and an Illinois State license to confer Bachelor of Science degrees on his first graduating class in 1940. Current expense money comes partly from Holy Name's own farm produce, partly from the coffers of the Catholic Youth Organization (also founded by Bishop Sheil...
...Under CAA's certificate of convenience and necessity, awarded to Pan Am the day before the first trip, only two transatlantic flights may be made a week. With authorizations from France and England for six a week, CAA is keeping room for competition. Only competitor now in sight: American Export Airlines, which has not yet made its first exploration flight...
With 400 on its passenger waiting list, Pan American will carry no revenue passengers until next month. One of the provisions of CAA's order was for five flights with mail only, so that Pan Am's crews will be thoroughly familiar with the run before the first passenger run (capacity: 40) is made...
...choosing Ed Noble, Mr. Hopkins pained two ambitious Assistant Secretaries. But the change brought promotions to two of Ed Noble's former CAA associates. Up to the vacated chairmanship moved Robert Hinckley of Utah, 48. Into the Hinckley seat moved Edward Pearson Warner, a professor of aeronautics at M. I. T., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, lately a technical adviser to Ed Noble...