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...Seversky Super-Clipper,'' at least on paper, would fly farther faster than any other, carry nearly twice the payload P. A. A. asked for. Its specifications: weight about 250,000 Ib.; five propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship...
Biggest airplane yet constructed in the U. S., Boeing's "314" is the first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only...
...engineers last week were busy marking a milestone with the 82,500-lb. Atlantic Clipper, seeing in it more fame from "lasts" than "firsts." It is the last of the "little" airplanes, the last airplane with engines outside, the last of duralumin, maybe the last with gasoline for fuel. P. A. A.'s 225,000-lb. "dream ships" now a-planning and due in three years will be steel, maybe Diesel-motored...
Warner scouts discovered him acting in the Pasadena Community Playhouse two years ago. After small parts in China clipper (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936) and a few minor films, he was cast as a boxer with Barton MacLane in a routine picture, first called Trial Horse, then Don't Pull Your Punches. The Warner wisemen looked at the rushes, rubbed their hands. Shelving the picture for the time being, they rushed Morris into Francis Wallace's Kid Galahad, surrounding him with such sure-fire stars as Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart. The cinemaudience, just as the Warner...
...American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused the fire? A few theorists jumped to the "static spark" conclusion advanced as a cause of the Hindenburg's explosion last year at Lakehurst. But most experts accepted a simpler explanation-that flame or sparks...