Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring the "blind-spot," passing over the Pole and on down the other side...
...reason that amateur flying has not taken a firmer hold", said Lieutenant Thomas, "is that the planes which can be purchased by amateurs are not safe, and will not be allowed by the Army and Navy authorities. However, if Harvard can get a plane of the type of the Fokker machine, I look for rapid progress by the Club. The trouble in the past has not been that there have not been enough planes, but that there have not been enough capable pilots to fly them. This difficulty is being eliminated by the work of the Harvard...
Lolling at their ease amid the luxurious appointments of a ten-passenger Fokker airplane (see SCIENCE), Mr. Anthony H. G. Fokker, famed Dutch aero-engineer...
...Trippe, youthful Vice President of the new U. S. Colonial Air Transport Corporation, set out last week to find out how swiftly a commercial aircraft could make the 300-mile run from Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba. Arrived at Havana, two hours and five minutes after leaving Miami, Mr. Fokker announced that their average speed of 144 miles an hour constituted a record for a non-stop flight of such length by a commercial airplane...
Meanwhile Mr. H. A. Bruno of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation entertained reporters by revealing one of Mr. Fokker's hobbies: "Not long ago he indulged his taste for air photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...