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Airways along the Pacific Coast are dotted with "service stations" marked by neon-lighted towers-aircraft fueling points erected by Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All...
Subsidies range from 8,000 francs (about $315) for land planes of any type, to 34,000 francs ($1,330) for three-place seaplanes. Other subsidies are offered for engines between 40 and 100 h. p., and for hours of flight up to 250.
Avco's stockholders, when they meet next week at Wilmington, will understand that the commissioning of Engineer Coburn does not signify sickness but progress in the corporation. He is not only to adjust but to amplify Avco's manufacturing. Plans include new giant seaplanes, a new line of...
Exciting to the public are flights which break such obvious world records as speed, altitude, duration, distance. More satisfying to manufacturers and operators are less spectacular, technical records such as the two which U. S. flyers broke last month and the one which Boris Sergievsky broke last week. Last month...
For Speed's Sake. It takes a very special sort of nerve to fly 300 m.p.h. Because he possesses such nerve, and because it was anxious to fly faster than the rest of the world, the U.S. Navy permitted big, hard-boiled Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., to stay...