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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known as "Martin Ocean Transport- Model 156," it is a ship almost 92 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 24 ft. high. Its great metal hull is suspended beneath a 157-ft. wing span. Stubby sea wings extend 13 ft. from the sides of the hull directly below the main span, contribute to the strength and stability of the whole ship and provide storage space for 4,260 gal. of fuel. In the nose is its anchor hatch, dual flight control station, bridge, navigation and radio rooms. Three passenger compartments and a lounge in the centre of the hull provide...
...plane like a speed boat, sprinting, curving, cutting corners through Chesapeake Bay until spectators said they had never seen an airplane so roughly handled. Then for 17 minutes he flew through the air about 100 ft. above the water. In continuous two-way radio conversation with Designer Glenn Luther Martin-who under a company agreement may not fly-Pilot Ebel reported M.O.T.'s performance. "Stable as a brick," grinned Designer Martin...
...hours the big ship will undergo such tests. Then, after the payment of a reputed $1,000,000 cash, the ship will be handed over to its purchaser, Amtorg Trading Corp., buying agent in the U. S. for the Soviet Union. Despite all Glenn Martin's urging the Russians could not be persuaded to fly their sample home. Instead it will be flown to New York, dismantled and shipped by steamer to the U.S.S.R...
Coinciding happily with both Maritime Commission Chairman Kennedy's recommendation for Atlantic flying boats (TIME, Nov. 29), and the inauguration last week of the third year of Pan American's Pacific air mail service, the new Martin Ocean Transport claims two points of advance in air travel. It is the first fully commercial airplane capable of negotiating the Atlantic nonstop; for its size, weight and power, its payload is more than that of any other transport. Designer Martin already has on his drawing boards plans of a 118,000-lb. ocean transport, which will carry 100 passengers, sleep...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...