Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the City of San Francisco's survivors was Industrialist Horace Disston (Henry Disston & Sons, saw manufacturers), who had told friends he preferred trains to planes "for safety's sake." Eighteen hours later, Pan American's Sikorsky 543 ("Baby Clipper"), out of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, was heading for Rio de Janeiro's naval dock. The bay, Pan Am's usual landing place, was clogged with pleasure craft. But seasoned Pilot A. G. Person confidently swung his ship around for a landing farther out. His twelve passengers, after a smooth and uneventful flight, were fumbling...
This answer to the challenge of Pan American's 41-ton Clippers (which last week completed in 24 hours their thirtieth crossing of the Atlantic) had cost Imperial many a costly survey flight, costlier technical trials & errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...
...North Atlantic. Air France, which also has a treaty right to land transatlantic mail and passengers in the U. S., is still in the survey stage. When Imperial shakes down, the Caribou and her sistership Cabot will carry mail, no passengers, each week between the U. S. and Britain. Pan American once carried 27 passengers, 791 lb. of mail to Europe...
Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...
...Patterson's dismay in 1937 Pan American ordered Boeing 307s just under the weight limit. Later American and T.W.A. began flirting with heavy planes...