Word: nyrba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With its equipment of Consolidated Fleetsters (capable of 150 m.p.h. with 2,000-lb. payload) acquired in the purchase of NYRBA Lines (TIME, Sept. i), Pan American is already in a fair position to operate a U. S.-Bermuda line. And if passengers are eventually to be carried, there are NYRBA'S 20-passenger Commodore flying boats. For its part, Imperial Airways has its new four-motored flying boat (first of a series) with a reported cruising range of 3,000 mi. But few airmen supposed that regular schedules could be undertaken before...
...year of actual operation (Aug. 19, 1929-Aug. 20, 1930) the route grew from 125 miles of airways to a system which with its operating affiliations in South America aggregated well over 10,000 miles of airways in 18 countries; that more than 8,000 passengers were carried in NYRBA planes without a single injury to anyone and four days prior to the consolidation agreement NYRBA completed its first million miles of scheduled flying with one of the highest rated efficiencies of any air line in the world...
...NYRBA is due much pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands...
...NYRBA, expounding economics to the industries of two continents rather than aerodynamics, placed the foundation for a great international commercial transport service. With all else in their favor, they lacked support of the Post Office Department contracts; privileged to carry South American air mail north, they could not offer American business men the reciprocal advantage of air mail service South, Absorption of NYRBA's assets by Pan American Airways provides a unified system...
...magnificent achievement, under the far-sighted direction of Juan T. Trippe who has brought into being the world's greatest international air transportation system, all assembled and put into working order within a matter of two years, should never be slighted. Nor should the great job that NYRBA has done within the past year, undertaking and putting through the biggest single air transport project any company has ever undertaken, be passed off without proper understanding. The factors behind the Pan American system are important and should be truthfully portrayed in the interests of the greater Pan American Airways system...