Word: edo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes for airline patronage, so far has none. The two seaplane "Skyports" in the East River, at 31st Street and the foot of Wall Street, are important private landings which serve such potent business figures as Henry Morgan, Harry P. Davison, Roland Harriman and Rudolph Loening. Other fields-Flushing, Edo, Holmes at Jackson Heights and Jamaica-are important only to manufacturers of aircraft, students, amateurs and taxi services. Newark still dominates metropolitan air facilities, will continue to do so until ousted by LaGuardia's North Beach scheme...
Korvan Kruhovsky, chief engineer of Edo Aircraft Corp., which builds 90% of airplane floats and pontoons used...
...wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit of all was Colonel Roscoe Turner, strutting about in a fawn-colored uniform...