Word: fokkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fokker's 32-Passenger. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 39, Java-born Dutchman, founder of the U. S. and Holland Fokker industries, last week flew his first 32-passenger sleeper plane, at Teterboro, N. J., airport. As in Pullman cars, its seats can be rearranged for berths. Distinctive are the plane's two pairs of Wasp-motors fixed tandem, and its twin rudders which are adjustable to compensate for varying engine speeds. On his trial flight Mr. Fokker set its tail on a fence. A drizzle preceded another test flight. Spectators voiced doubt that the ship would try the run under...
Exclaimed Mr. Fokker: "My ship is not a lump of sugar. It won't melt in the rain." In flight the huge ship showed stability, maneuverability. Universal Air Lines ordered the plane and four replicas for its proposed day-&-night transcontinental service...
Duchess of Flights. Intimates of Mary du Cauroy, 63, Duchess of Bedford, received her telegrams one morning last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist...
Contractees were the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Inc. of Garden City, L. I.; Douglas Aircraft Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.: Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America, of Hassbrouck Heights, N. J.; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore...
...Manhattan air men last week reported that a Mid-Continent Air Express was being organized to operate between Chicago and New Orleans. They said that President Harris M. Hanshue of Fokker Aircraft Corp. was back of the project; also Chairman James Talbot of Richfield Oil Co., Western Air Express and Fokker. Supposedly Mid-Continent would tie up with Western and Standard Air Lines...