Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transport Planes...
...gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes...
South America has no endowed school for the teaching of general aeronautics. With the poor development of land transportation, there is a great opportunity for planes to carry passengers, mail and express over the greater part of the continent. This enterprising air transport companies are beginning to do-largely with planes bought in Europe...
...Newark, N. J., airport with a dozen passengers at 165 m.p.h. It has seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...
...under the plane when she lands, a benefit. To get figures on cost of operation, Mr. Chapman sent his airliner to Philadelphia last week, will send it shortly to Chicago, then to San Francisco. Then he expects to build a fleet of them and set up his own air transport system...