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...last week Sikorsky Aviation Corp. revealed to newsmen the nearly completed hulls of two 40-passenger amphibians being built for Central and South American routes of Pan American Airways, Inc. The planes will be the largest amphibians in the world, the only larger heavier-than-air craft being the Dornier DO-X and the Junkers G-38. Powered by four 575 h.p. Hornet engines, the 8-40 is designed to fly nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common...
Part of the adventure takes place on a trans-Atlantic liner and part on the Dornier DO-X plane; through all of it the widow pursues tentatively hilarious adventures with various men. If the star overacted less, if the little plot moved with speed instead of confusion, What a Widow might be passable entertainment. As it stands, it will do little to support Gloria Swanson's reputation as an entertainer. Best role-Gregory Gaye as a Russian violinist...
...marked contrast to its unostentatious departure from the Isle of Sylt was the flying boat's spectacular arrival (from Halifax, N. S.) at New York. In mid-afternoon the great tandem-motored Dornier-Wal flew out of the northeast and over Manhattan's crowded Battery, twice circled the Statue of Liberty. Capt. von Gronau picked out one of the escort of police planes, followed it down to a landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year...
...leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney in an unsuccessful Atlantic flight...
...fourth very great aviation group* took form last week when Fokker Aircraft Corp. changed its name to General Aviation Corp. and increased its capital shares from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000. Next step is to buy the Fokker manufacturing units of Fokker Aircraft and the Dornier Co. of America. Purpose of General Aviation is to hold control of air producing and operating concerns. So, because Harris M. Hanshue is president of Western Air Express as well as of General Aviation, Western Air Express' inclusion is in prospect. So too is Bendix Aviation Corp.'s, because General Motors, which...