Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavens. Meanwhile the Boeing plant continued to turn out top-notch planes, of which the finest was the famed 247-D-first twin-motored, low-wing, high-speed transport. Introduced in 1933, this ship outmoded the lumbering Fords and Fokkers, became standard with six U. S. lines, Deutsche Lufthansa and China's Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
...across the ocean from England to the U. S., ran out of gas over Newfoundland, plopped into a bog with slight damages to plane and flyers. Few days before, two really important transatlantic flights had been accomplished with much more efficiency and much less ballyhoo by Germany's Lufthansa...
...Germany's No. 1 airline started catapulting ship-to-shore airplanes from the Bremen and Europa. Since February 1934, Lufthansa has been running a regular weekly airplane mail service across the South Atlantic, using a catapult ship anchored off either shore. By last week Lufthansa was ready to tackle the more formidable North Atlantic on the experimental co-operative basis arranged with the U. S. and Pan American Airways last winter (TIME...
...wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards the flight there from Germany as child's play. The planes are catapulted so they might take off with a greater load than they could lift from the water...