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Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...
...plane in Panama jungles, one of the U. S. Navy's most skilled pilots, with no living relatives except an aunt and an uncle -many a tribute was paid. Said Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, whose own wrist was broken (TIME, April 25) when the New York-to-Paris Fokker monoplane America turned turtle: "Davis and Wooster were my old friends. I am shocked beyond expression. They were brilliant, courageous air pioneers. The loss to aviation is irreparable. . . . They would want me to ask the people of this country not to associate the unfortunate accident of pioneers with commercial aviation...
...Evelyn Marshall Field (merchandise) Gloria Swanson (cinema) John Barrymore (cinema) Anthony H. G. Fokker (aeronautics) Frank B. Patterson (National Cash Register Co. president...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, international aeronautical expert, maintains an opposite opinion to Sir Hugh Frenchard...
...Fokker. At a dinner given by the Wright Aeronautical Co. in honor of Poleflyers Byrd and Bennett, up stood Anthony H. G. Fokker, Dutch designer of most of Germany's wartime planes, of the Pole-reaching Josephine Ford and many another efficient machine, to announce that he so believed in the U. S. as the chief flying nation of the future that he had determined to become a citizen, permanently coming over from the ranks of European engineers...