Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise admirable description of the newly-completed DC-4 transport plane [TIME, May 23], TIME misleads with this statement: "With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin...
...plot is strictly utilitarian. On a Swedish country estate, where he is stranded when his plane crashes, Paderewski unites two estranged lovers by the "miracle" of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barbara Greene, Marie Tempest, and Charles Farrell do very well in their distinctly subsidiary parts. The picture is well worth the time for anyone at all interested in music...
...Plans to Plane. To see that his plane does come up to specifications' is Donald Douglas' job. Primarily a designer, he can and does fly a plane on occasion, but he doesn't like flying very much. What he does like, besides sailing, is building planes for other men to fly. DC-4 was the work of scores of experts, the result of the most intricate plans ever drawn for a single plane. But, though Douglas himself did not drive a single one of the 1,300,000 rivets in DC-4's skin & bones...
...Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every material. They built huge testing machines many times as valuable as the part they were testing. In the end the experts were satisfied that every inch of the plane could stand twice as much stress as would ever be brought to bear. Fourth DC-4, fruit of this triple experimenting, represents $992,808 for labor and engineering, $641,804 for materials and overhead...
...tall, weather-beaten Pennsylvanian, Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...