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Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...
...credit to Sikorsky Aircraft for pioneering the art of ocean flying. Sikorskys will be surpassed by Martin's new China Clipper at hauling passengers, mail & express over such long routes as the California-Hawaii run (2,410-mi.) But the Sikorsky Clipper will continue to give able service in South American waters, is admirably adapted to the 1,250-mi. jump across the Tasman Sea contemplated by Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith's airline...
...beans were prized in China 5,000 years ago, were first brought to the U. S. in 1804 by a Yankee clipper. Most famed U. S. soy-bean user is Henry Ford, devout believer in manufacturing as an outlet for agricultural products. In 20 small, scattered factories. Ford has been making a hard, easily cleaned enamel from the bean oil, and from the bean meal, such molded plastic parts as horn buttons, gear lever caps, dash panels and distributor covers. This year Ford will use the crop from 61,500 soy-bean acres...
...American's famed Clipper last week set a new record to Hawaii on the first leg of its first trip to Guam...
...Airways to extend their airlines across the dangerous Tasman Sea to New Zealand. Long refused because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some $500,000 for the sale...