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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stinson-Detroiter monoplane glided down upon Langley Field, at Hampton, Va., one day last week and the two men who stooped out of her cabin asked army mechanics to help them trundle the plane at once into a hangar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Packard's Diesel | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...patents now are obtainable on diesels or their modifications, for plane-power or other drive.* Several manufacturers have been experimenting with diesel modifications for aircraft. Some of their representatives were at Langley Field last week, attending the fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (initiated by President Wilson). It was to astonish their peers that Packard Engineers Woolson and Lees had flown the 650 wind-jostled miles from Detroit. It was to frustrate competitive inquisitiveness that they hooded their motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Packard's Diesel | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: I Do it Myself | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Mynheer Fokker tried to sell his planes to the British Government, but no sale was made. He turned, therefore, to Germany, was enthusiastically received, and, with the outbreak of the War, became suddenly a famed and feared figure. It was the Fokker DVII that brought down many an allied plane; it was Herr Fokker that first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: I Do it Myself | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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