Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take-off at Roosevelt Field in a trimotored Sikorsky biplane, and two of his crew members have burned to death. Lindbergh distrusts the heavy, intricate, three-engine craft of the day: too much could go wrong. But his backers are cautious; they urge him to go to the renowned Fokker Co. A three-engine plane for such a flight will cost $90,000, the salesman tells him. When Lindbergh mentions a one-engine job, the salesman's voice turns chill: "Mr. Fokker wouldn't consider selling a single-engine plane for a flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Lindbergh...
...trimotored Fokker monoplane bearing the name Question Mark took off and began swinging in lazy circles over Southern California. Every few hours, night & day, a second plane rose up, jockeyed a hose into position on the droning Fokker, poured gas into its thirsty tanks. After six days, the Fokker glided back to earth. Its bone-tired pilots, among them a stocky, ruddy-skinned Army lieutenant named Elwood Richard Quesada, * had just hung up a world's endurance record...