Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilot Arthur Bussey of Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, advertised last week for four passengers to Europe in his trimotored Ford. The plane will hop via Harbor Grace, Newfoundland as soon as the four fares are booked. No publicity hunter himself, Pilot Bussey announced that he had received 40 inquiries from curioseekers, few genuine prospects...
Pilot Freeburg not only saved his and the passengers' lives, but also the six-year record of Northwest Airways for never killing a passenger. In 1928, Northwest Airways' Pilot E. H. Middagh brought down a flaming plane, saved the passengers, was burned to death...
...London Daily Mail, distributed reprints to the U. S. press. Circulars and telegrams were sent out by persuasive Hansell & Co. By March the price of Indian Motocycle reached $17, then sank to $5.50 in June when Plummer, and presumably the pool, abandoned it. The inventor of the air plane motor (never produced) "visited America, disposed of his shares and returned to England, contented but disgusted." Last week Indian Motocycle sold for 63?...
...most popular planes for British hopping & skipping are the De Haviland Moths, "Puss" and "Gypsy." Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler flew a Puss Moth on his startling South Atlantic hop last autumn. Last month James A. Mollison in a Gypsy hung up a new record (4 days, 17 hr., 19 min.) from England to Capetown, another well-pounded Empire race course. Britain's Amy Johnson and Peggy Salaman fly Moths. A Gypsy cruises at 90 m.p.h., a Puss a little faster. Reasons for Moth popularity: 1) British plane builders concentrate on commercial & military types; 2) with little competition...
...steeper-pitched propellers have been mounted, air screws which will take a bigger bite of air, increase the Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large...