Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven, 36 passengers. Of the latter, nearly all were aviation shockworkers and their families, getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling. The pilots cut the switches, regained control, began gliding towards the airport...
...fuselage landed on a worker's house in Moscow's outskirts, wrecked it from roof to cellar. Wings, motors, equipment, bodies and parts of bodies fell far & wide. Of the 48 on board, all were killed. Also killed was the pilot of the little training plane...
...tragedy in history, the Maxim Gorki disaster was Russia's third major air crash. In September 1933 five of her highest aviation officials, along with several other persons, died in a crash near Moscow. Two months later the super-airliner K7, then the world's largest land-plane, killed 14 in a crash at Kharkov. Mournfully last week the Kremlin announced a State funeral for the latest victims, compensation for their families...
Director Eugene Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce has long had a pet idea: let aircraft manufacturers produce a plane cheap enough for the average man, power it with an automobile engine. Last week his idea neared realization when Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co. of Marshall, Mo. announced the Plymacoupe-a graceful high-wing cabin monoplane with a standard 6-cyl. Plymouth engine. Expected price...
...engines cost about $150-one-tenth the price of an aircraft engine of similar power. The weight is about double. Several manufacturers, notably Wiley Post Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma, have experimented with the Ford 4-cyl. engine for airplane use. Others have tried motorcycle engines. Month ago a midget plane called Drone, powered with a 16-h. p. motorcycle engine, caused a mild sensation in London (TIME, May 6). Last week Austrian Pilot Robert Kronfeld flew from London to Paris, at a fuel cost of $1.47, in a glider with a 5-h. p. motorcycle engine...