Word: seaplanesful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first...
Barter. Last week General Italo Balbo's squadron of transatlantic seaplanes (TIME, Jan. 19) flew on from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, whence it was reported that the eleven Savoia-Marchetti ships would be delivered to the Brazilian Government in exchange for $618,420 worth of coffee.
In darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the...
Lieut. Schildhauer's resignation gave impetus to rumors in Manhattan that General Motors was fast losing interest in the idea of manufacturing Dornier boats in the U. S. General Motors reputedly agreed to pay $250,000 to Dr. Dornier for U. S. rights (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929) but did...
Lakes & Streams. When New Jersey's State Board of Commerce & Navigation ruled that aircraft must not alight on Jersey's inland waters, loud was the protest of the men who build, sell and operate seaplanes and amphibians (TIME, Sept. 29). H. Stewart McDonald Jr., counsel for the Aeronautical...