Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortress" about to be delivered, hurtled from Burbank, Calif, to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (2,450 miles) in 9 hr. 14 min. 30 sec., at average speed of 259.398 m.p.h., only two hours slower than the transcontinental record made by Howard Hughes in a racing plane. Finally, a Grumman amphibian flew 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) at 186.094 m.p.h., bettering Italy's world record of 159.8 m.p.h...
...last week with industry buying heavily for the first time in months. And Bernard E. (''Sell 'em Ben") Smith, most famed of Wall Street bears, for the first time in his life came out as co-underwriter of an issue-100,000 shares of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
...last job for Great Lakes was testing a new "torpedo type" plane designed for the Navy. Month ago he dived the wings off it over Ohio, jumped 8,000 ft. with his parachute. Last fortnight he went to work for Grumman at Farmingdale, still wearing bandages from the head injuries he received in bailing out. Early one morning he took the stubby X-737 up 25,000 ft., dived and stunted it for six hours while hundreds of spectators alternately cheered and held their breath. When he came down after the last dive he told observers he "wasn...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...