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...Sweden 61 years ago, moved to the U.S. when he was 16, has been inventing and making guns ever since. Gus Swebilius worked with famed Inventor John Moses Browning during World War I, made Colt and Browning machine guns. After the Germans came out in War I with Anthony Fokker's device to fire airplane machine guns through the propeller, Gus Swebilius was the first in the U.S. to work out a similar device for the Allies...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Rotterdam. A big Armstrong Whitley bomber flew over the heart of Holland toward its base in Britain after a night's work over Germany. Lieut. P. Noomen of The Netherlands Air Force was called from his bed. Pulling his flying suit over his pajamas he leaped into his Fokker fighter and roared aloft, signaled the British ship to land. The British pilot plugged steadily along on his course toward home. Lieut. Noomen fired a warning burst of bullets. Straight ahead through the clouds plowed the Britisher. Duty obliged Lieut. Noomen to dive at the violator of Dutch neutrality, fire...
When Juan Terry Trippe got Pan American Airways into the air in 1927 he knew every wrinkle in its flying equipment (a lone trimotored Fokker), every part in his stockroom, every wavelet in the go-mile mail route between Key West and Havana. In his eyes was the dreamy gleam of the empire builder, behind his disarming smile a grim determination...
Died. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 49, eccentric, Dutch aeronautical engineer, plane builder for Germany in World War I, since then for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, for Amelia Earhart; a U. S. citizen since 1931; of pneumococcus meningitis; in Manhattan...