Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Sea. From July to end of October U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, British-owned Imperial Airways, Ltd. and German-owned Deutsche Lufthansa have flown big, new airplanes 26 times over the North Atlantic, piled up 90,000 miles of ocean flight. Weakest of nations in 1937's international bid for future U. S.-Europe air business has been France. Following the abandonment of the Paris-sponsored mass race over the Atlantic in May and the failure of Portugal to reply to France's request for permission to use the Azores, not one French airplane attempted...
...Down upon the glassy harbor of Port Washington, L. I. settled a four-motored Lufthansa seaplane with swastikas on her tail, Nordmeer in large letters on her flank. Considerably larger than the two twin-motored German flying boats which crossed the Atlantic several times last summer (TIME, Sept. 21), she had been catapulted from the Azores, made the 2,392 miles in 16 hr. 28 min. without incident...
...association similar to that of Pan American and Imperial but as unstable as an alliance between cat and dog was formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital...
...joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising speed of 155 m.p.h. Designed...
...American last week pushed its transatlantic plans farther by finally wangling permission to land in the Azores and Portugal. It has been seeking this for three years. Portugal granted Pan American a 25-year franchise, gave an identical permit to Imperial Airways. Air France and Deutsche Lufthansa have demanded but not yet received the same privileges...