Word: electras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking off from New York's Floyd Bennett Field with Co-Pilot John S. Lambie in a twin-motored Lockheed Electra which once belonged to Harold S. Vanderbilt, he buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
...Brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead incorporated as Lockheed Aircraft Co. because people mispronounced their name as "loghead." The Lockheed Vega presently rolled off their line, first of a series of single-motored speedsters which set many a record. In 1933 Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given...
Last year Douglas launched the DC-3, a luxury version of the DC-2. Now abuilding is Lockheed's parallel to the DC-3- the S-14, an eleven-passenger luxury version of the Electra. Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...
...also flew around the world on commercial lines. Last week, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland "to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel" and "to determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." The plane was the $80,000 Lockheed Electra bought and outfitted for her by publicity wise Purdue University as a "flying laboratory." With her as navigators she took three men, but not her publicity wise husband, who stayed at Oakland to sell her autographs at $6 each...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...