Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pan American Airways' Los Angeles Operations Manager Major Daniel E. Ellis had an idea, took it to California Institute of Technology's young Research Physicist Anthony Easton. Last week, Researcher Easton finished his job: the design for an automatic distress signal. The apparatus is a two-tube, five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose...
...then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites...
...Pan American officials, hard put to it to explain their first loss of passengers in nearly two years of transpacific flying, did not think the Clipper had caught fire. After last January they had changed the design of the gasoline dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything...
...year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...
Therefore Mr. Hull requested that Mexico arbitrate (under the multilateral Pan-American arbitration treaty of 1929): 1) the question whether it has complied with international law ("It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the Government of Mexico has not complied"); 2) the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more...