Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the corridors of the Department of Commerce building and of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week stormed an exceedingly irate Dutchman-Anthony Herman Gerhard ("Tony") Fokker. He shouted threats at the Department, at Assistant Secretary Clarence Marshall Young for the "hasty" "hostile" and "prejudiced" action of suspending Fokker planes from U. S. passenger service (TIME, May 11), hinted that certain airmail operators might cancel their contracts with the Government, out of sympathy for his cause. He issued angry statements to the Press at 4 a. m. and repudiated them at 4:30 a. m. He thrust his head...
...matters ran for three days until Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest arrived on the scene as mediator and persuaded explosive "Tony" to withdraw as spokesman in favor of more rational James M. Schoonmaker Jr., president and general manager of General Aviation Corp. (Fokker organization). Outcome of the final conferences, attended by officials of the transport lines affected, was this program...
...Fokker tri-motors (35 in number) of the type in which Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others crashed to death in Kansas six weeks ago (TIME, April 13) must be inspected by Department of Commerce agents before they can be restored to service. That inspection-a lengthy procedure involving removal of the plywood covering of the wings-must hereafter be undertaken regularly by the operators. The ailerons of the wings must be equipped with a counterbalance to make their manipulation easier...
From the week's sessions Col. Young emerged with an acute headache and the heightened respect of thoughtful airmen. Immediately after the Rockne crash (the cause of which remains unexplained save that a wing was ripped off in midair) he ordered a Fokker to Wright Field, Ohio for rigorous wing tests. The result did not please him.* Fearing a repetition of the Rockne crash, Col. Young quietly ordered all operators to withdraw their Fokkers pending inspection-which he also intended to keep quiet. But the story was broken by astute newshawks who saw certain of the operators wheeling their...
Because the crash that killed Knute Rockne and seven others in Kansas last month (TIME, April 13) has yet to be fully explained (beyond the simple fact that a wing of the Fokker plane pulled off) the Department of Commerce last week took drastic action. It suspended all Fokker trimotors of the 1929 type from passenger service until experts of the Department and the Fokker company make a thoroughgoing inspection of each craft. Said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young: "No reflection of any kind upon Fokker aircraft or its basic design or original construction. The only point involved...