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...lines would put in service ships of the projected size (43,000 Ib. to 75,000 lb.). While they had their heads together, T. W. A.'s Captain Daniel W. Tomlinson was working on plans for substratosphere flying for T. W. A.'s President Jack Frye. At the same time Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. was building the great high-altitude Air Corps' B-17 bombers which last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible...
...Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights out so officers could not see him. Eventually his gallivanting got him cashiered from the service and he joined TWA as assistant to President Jack Frye, himself a top-notch flyer. Today Tomlinson holds several world records, has spent more time above 35,000 ft. than any other man, is regarded so highly as a flyer that insurance companies have been known to cut their premiums 50% on a new plane if he is to test...
...forced landing, but damage was negligible and the research gains were tremendous. After the Aviation Show the "overweather" plane retired for an overhaul. Last week, with a radical new fuel injection system made by Eclipse Corp. that eliminates the carburetor, it was given its first tests by President Frye in person preparatory to more visits to the substratosphere...
Were Henry Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...
Latvia: John S. Stillman '40; chairman; Graham B. Blaine, Jr. '40; John W. Myers, Jr. '40; Frank S. Streeter '40; William R. Frye '40; and Stuart M. Wyeth...