Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs...
...Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most potent aerial fighting machine in the U. S.. has a 3,00-mi. range, 250-m. p. h. speed. Though a careless pilot crashed the first, the Army ordered 13 for $3,800,000. Two have been delivered.* This fat prize swelled the Boeing bank account, helped lift earnings from a 1935 loss of $333,800 to a profit of $131,700 for the first nine months...
...American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which are on the line so short a time that they only meet or pass about 20 other trains to the standard passenger train's 30. Result: a speed-up of all traffic along the line...
...flown by the club contests consist of precision tests in flying and landing, bomb dropping and aerobatics, rather than speed. Framingham is the nearest test ground...