Word: fokkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent...
...Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...airport with a dozen passengers at 165 m.p.h. It has seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...
Endless circles and arcs, endless glissandos of flight. Over Southern California droned the Fokker cabin monoplane Question Mark. At the dawn of the new year five U. S. Army flyers had swooped into the air from Los Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to stay in the sky until men or engines succumbed. Experts had allowed their three Wright Whirlwind motors 400 flying hours before bearings splintered and cracked, poppet valves ceased to pop. The wind-bronzed flyers seemed staunch, infallible...
...motor keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests...