Word: familia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Familia Volano, a big black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian, the Hutchin-sons-George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6-and a crew of four had hopped by easy stages to Labrador (TIME, Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...
...they spied a light at sea. Burning their last films, oil and flares, they hailed the trawler Lord Talbot. At dawn the next morning she nosed in through the ice to pick them up. As they boarded the ship, they saw an iceberg slowly crush the wreck of the Familia Volano...
...Familia Volano." George R. Hutchinson was a bookkeeper in Philadelphia six years ago when, aged 24, he took up flying. He barnstormed for a time, sold planes, became part owner of William Penn Airport. Often on pleasure hops he would take his pretty wife and two small daughters. The flurry caused by their appearance at airports gave Pilot Hutchinson an idea. He capitalized the novelty of a "flying family" by undertaking smallscale "goodwill flights." carrying greetings from one booster organization to another, making speeches before luncheon clubs...
...Hutchinson plane is a black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian named, of course, The Flying Family with the Italian Familia Volano* painted on either side of the nose. Also painted on the fuselage is a white winged circle enclosing the heads of a man, a woman and two children...