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...inclusion of United Aircraft & Transport, profitably enterprising merger of plane, motor and transport companies (TIME, March 31). Said Dr. Eckener: "This is of particular importance. It means that the airplane and the airship, long regarded as competitors ... are joining in a cooperative enterprise. I can say that the Dornier interests (likewise) are with us in this project...
...Lone Wolf of Alaska." After arousing German enthusiasm by being the first outsider to pilot Claude Dornier's 12-motored flying boat, the DO-X (TIME, Nov. 25), George King, "lone wolf of Alaska," tuned the enthusiasm to higher pitch last week by proposing a flight, in a Junkers plane similar to the Atlantic flying Bremen (TIME, April 23, 1928), from Dessau, Germany, across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, to New York...
...these stupendities the present "biggest" planes already successfully flown are as hawks to eagles. They were designed by Claude Dornier,* Hugo Junkers, Adolph Rohrbach and Gianni Caproni respectively. (A German engineer, probably one of the three aforementioned, is the consultant on motive power for the U. S. ships.) Measurements of their "biggests...
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...sailed last week to attend a Manhattan meeting of the board of directors of Dornier Motors Aircraft Corp. of America, which General Motors Corp. recently formed to make his big seaplanes in the U. S. (TIME...