Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...globetrotter, announced that thereafter he would travel only by air. Last week he set out in a Moth biplane from Kingston, Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to visit his good friend Lieut. Faustin E. Wirkus of the Garde D'Haiti and U. S. Marines (TIME, Jan. 26). The plane was forced down midway, floated for six hours until Globe-trotter Freeman and his pilot were picked up by a steamer...
...Bernt Balchen, who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, took a job last week as pilot on the Ludington Line's plane-every-hour service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Pilot Balchen & backers are planning a round-the-world flight...
Because the amphibians shuttle across an 8-mi. route 60 times a day, Air Ferries naturally made "records" for the year: 19,771 flights, 61,245 passengers. But the passenger loads averaged less than half the planes' capacity of eight persons; and at the fare of $1.50 a plane would have netted $30 per hour, while operating costs might be figured at $40. Great problem to Air Ferries is to persuade enough commuters, of whom there are about 91,000 daily, that it is worth $1.50 to scoot across the bay in 6 min. instead of paying...
...seven or eight. Gone glimmering were the industry's hopes of heavy replacement orders through obsolescence, at least for the present.* Astute manufacturers began to look for new markets, studied the private-flyer field. Last year it was apparent that they will attempt to make 1931 a "light-plane year," with planes priced up to $2,000, easy, safe and cheap to operate, attractive to beginners...
Junior. Most recent and notable entrant into the light-plane field is Curtiss-Wright Corp.** Last week it announced its new Junior, a two-place high-wing monoplane for $1,490. Some features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 40 h. p.; top speed 80 m. p. h., cruising 70, landing 28 Fuel consumption: about one gallon to 25 mi.; cruising radius 200 mi. The plane is tiny, looks like a winged canoe built close to the ground, but is sturdily braced against the novice's "pancake" landings. It is of the "pusher" type (a rarity in modern landplanes) with...