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Thus ended an attempt "to determine the practicability of a transatlantic air messenger service, to be backed by Mr. Macfadden." Owned by Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, the black-&-gold Lockheed Altair monoplane carried a 50-lb. payload, an additional gas tank in the rear cockpit where Publisher Macfadden was wont to ride about the U. S. Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage...
...cost of 'chutes plus the reduction of payload caused by their presence would force the average airline out of business...
...bankers Hayden Stone Co. Then he mapped a series of monthly experimental flights of which Cramer's is the first. The implication was that if and when a two-day, two-night service is proved practicable, Thompson Aeronautical Corp. will be in line for a mail contract. (Estimated payload needed 18,000 letters at 50? each...
...Lieut. William S. MacLaren and Widow Beryl Hart, 27, flying the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, reached Bermuda fortnight ago in their attempted "payload" flight from New York to Paris. They took off again for the Azores, flew into a high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...
...single-motored theory." As evidence, the report stated, Ford's airplane division was inviting its users to turn in their ships for conversion into single-motored jobs, with a 600 h. p. Cyclone or Hornet engine to replace the three 200 h. p. Whirlwinds. Supposed result: increased payload and speed. Supposed significance : that after five years of tri-motor production the company had found its line of work misdirected...