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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
...Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place...
...nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines, Inc., to carry passengers between New York and Chicago in six hours or less...
...midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane has a 100 m...
...Louis; 1919, George E. Osborne, Professor of Law at Stanford University; 1920, Cloyd Laporte, junior partner, Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine, New York; 1921, Donald C. Swatland, junior partner, Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood, New York; 1922, Bertram F. Willcox, junior partner, Schurman, Wiley & Willcox, New York; 1923. James M. Nicely, second vice president, National Bank of Commerce, New York; 1924, Warren S. Ege, associate in Davis, Severance & Morgan, St. Paul; 1925, Robert G. Page, associate in Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine; 1926, David F. Cavers, associate in Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern, New York; 1927, Henry J. Friendly, associate in Root, Clark...