Word: stearman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...
Aeromarine, Klemm, Alliance, American Eagle, Arrow, Bellanca, Berliner-Joyce, Boeing, Cessna, Chance Vought, Command-Aire, Curtiss, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Knoll, Lincoln, Mahoney-Ryan, Mohawk, Moth, Parks, Pitcairn, Simplex, Spartan, Stearman, Swallow, Swift, Travel Air, Whittlesey...
...Stearman--3-seat open cockpit biplane; wings unequal; strutted to fuselage; fuselage slim; sharp curves on tail units; radial engine; split axled wheels close to body...
...Stearman Company is now capitalized at $600,000 and is producing one of the most refined commercial biplanes on the market. This ship is flown by the air lines, by the government and is very popular with people of wealth who take up aviation as a sport...