Word: hangar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been mounted, air screws which will take a bigger bite of air, increase the Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large hook atop the plane...
...gargantuan hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded...
...biting wind whistled across Detroit City Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among upright pillars disguised to look like tree trunks. No decoration scheme could conceal the fact that there was more empty floor space than in any previous National Aircraft Show. The planes on display numbered only half of last year's. But the exhibitors assured each other that they, who had answered...
Greatest disappointment of the show's opening, from a spectacular standpoint, was the absence of the new 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" developed by Ford's Chief Engineer William Benson Mayo. Last-minute work on the ship was rushed at the Ford plant in hope of having it on the hangar floor before the show closed...
...last week). Avco receives about 30 Stinson planes (all tri-motors except three or four) which have been flying between St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland; between El Paso and Los Angeles; and between Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Also it receives Century's new hangar and shop at Chicago Municipal Airport, valued...