Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. James M. Schoonmaker Jr., onetime chief engineer of Dayton-Wright Co. (aircraft): to be president of General Aviation Corp. and Fokker Aircraft Corp., succeeding Harris M. Hanshue who resigned to devote full time to Western Air Express. Also resigned: General Aviation Corp.'s vice president and general manager William T. Whalen to rejoin General Motors...
Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker, technical chief of General Motors Corp.'s aviation division, visiting at Roosevelt Field, L. I., ran across Miss Luba Phillips, a Russian pilot, the first woman he ever taught to fly. A reunion! They should have a fly together! Her monocoupe sport plane was on the sidelines. In they jumped with Designer Fokker at the controls, up and around they darted in joyful banks, slips, spins and curleycues, all beautifully executed, all less than 500 ft. from the ground. When they landed, a Department of Commerce inspector approached. "Where," he asked, "is your license?" Mr. Fokker...
...York nonstop, or even U. S. soil. They must be somewhere near Harbor Grace Newfoundland, but how see the airport through such a fog? Then came a rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last week after 31 trying hours, the Fokker Southern Cross, already famed for its flight from California to Australia (TIME June 18 1928) from Australia to England, became the second to make a nonstop flight westward across the Atlantic and land on North American soil, first to continue into...
...Current prices: Ford, Wasp-powered $50,000; Wright, J-6 powered $40,000; Fokker, Wasp-powered $54,500; Wright, J-6 powered...
...fourth very great aviation group* took form last week when Fokker Aircraft Corp. changed its name to General Aviation Corp. and increased its capital shares from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000. Next step is to buy the Fokker manufacturing units of Fokker Aircraft and the Dornier Co. of America. Purpose of General Aviation is to hold control of air producing and operating concerns. So, because Harris M. Hanshue is president of Western Air Express as well as of General Aviation, Western Air Express' inclusion is in prospect. So too is Bendix Aviation Corp.'s, because General Motors, which...