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Nevertheless Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting...
...foreigner almost anything written in their language looks unpronounceable or worse. As a matter of business the company which sells their Shell oil is known as the Royal Dutch-Shell. They sell tickets stamped "Royal Dutch Air Lines" for the ships of the K. L. M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij). And goods shipped from the Netherlands to English-speaking countries often are branded "Dutch...
...name on aircraft. With it he will organize International Fokker Corp., combining Fokker interests the world over, with the Dutch Fokker Aircraft Co. as nucleus. These interests include aircraft factories in Holland and Belgium, licensing arrangements in Great Britain, France and Italy; also the K. L. M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) airline between Holland and Batavia, which uses Fokker planes exclusively. Designer Fokker professed friendliest relations with General Aviation Corp., in which he remained largest individual stockholder and a director...
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