Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April, with American Export flying a 15-ton Consolidated flying boat and the Italians a new Cant-Trieste seaplane, the two lines will start four months of survey flying along their joint line. Hoping for eventual Civil Aeronautics Authority sanction, the new partners are planning 60-to-70 passenger sleeper ships to be built in both countries from jointly drawn specifications...
Once on a Pullman sleeper an officious Dorter routed him out of his drawing-room 3erth in the middle of the night. "Dere's a lady out dere says she give me a quarter f you toll me how you pronounce your lame." Gabrilowitsch told him. The pro : Gabbril-oh'-vich...
...successfully opposed the plan of United Air Lines and Western Air Express to fly each other's equipment-United Mainliners from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, W. A. E.'s ships to Chicago-as a convenience to passengers who otherwise had to be routed out of sleeper berths at unearthly hours to change planes. Reason: such a pooling would have let unfranchised United ships into American-T. W. A.-monopolized Los Angeles...
...crash of a United Air Liner in a Cleveland gulch last week, this much was known: at 11:07 p.m., the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) radioed Cleveland: SHIP OVER PARKMAN. FOUR THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE. EVERYTHING O.K. A few minutes later Radio Operator James C. Wynne, in the Cleveland Airport control tower, saw the plane and prepared to "talk" Pilot James Brandon in to a landing. Suddenly the DST disappeared...
...retractable tricycle landing gear, with a large wheel in the nose. Thanks to this forward wheel, DC-4 will always be in flying position, horizontal, tail up. No tail skid is necessary because the tail will never be near the ground. Passengers in sleeper planes will no longer be wakened by the rearward slant at each landing. The plane can take off relatively quickly, can "fly into" a landing. Blind landings will therefore be less dangerous, and, contrary to general belief, fields will not have to be extended for landing nor huge catapults employed to get DC-4 into...