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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...
...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
...veterans recalled World War I's old flying "Jennies" (the JN types, fabric-covered, wooden cratelike structures), the wooden Lockheeds (the type Wiley Post flew around the world) and Fokker commercial planes of more than ten years ago. They had high praise for planes mainly built of wood on grounds of greater maneuverability, especially on quickly built temporary landing fields. The Army explains that it is not yet ready for wooden combat planes, is meanwhile ordering more & more wooden primary trainers, has available a design for an advanced trainer in which priority precious metals may be replaced by wood...
...vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief occasionally gives him a conto or two.) But he still keeps a tarpalin well spread over France's only plane at Natal, an old Fokker; he cuts the grass on the runway; and every night, over his radio, he reports "weather conditions" to Dakar...