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...Eddie Allen, longtime test pilot for Fokker, Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and until last week chief test pilot for Chance Vought Corp., East Hartford, Conn. Described by Collins as "the best test pilot in the country," Allen is also a noted aviation engineer and writer on technical subjects. Last week General Manager Edward Vernon Rickenbacker announced his appointment as chief engineer of Eastern Air Lines...
...sidelines "Tony" Fokker looked up from the technical journal he had been reading in time to see Stack's plane disappear over the horizon. Finish of the race: Melbourne, Australia, 11,323 miles away. Preparations...
...showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips to the Fokker airplane plant at Amsterdam, The Hague, the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, they doubled back toward Lisbon. Forced down by fog off the coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh...
...over sheltered waters and rivers on Pan American's foreign routes. Its top speed is specified at 180 m. p. h., about 40 m. p. h. better than the fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined...
Despite its claim that the pressagent had no authority to charge the merchandise, Fokker Corp. was ordered to pay, with interest. In course of the trial a Fokker officer testified that the company had contributed $5,000 to the backing of the flight, only to learn that impetuous Anton Hermann Gerhard ("Uncle Tony") Fokker, who resigned from the company last year, had promised the flyers $10,000. "Mr. Fokker's promise aroused considerable controversy among our officers. We did not feel that he had any authority to make the promise and we didn't think we got value...