Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...otherwise admirable description of the newly-completed DC-4 transport plane [TIME, May 23], TIME misleads with this statement: "With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin...
Cabin supercharging, unquestionably one of the greatest advances in store for air transportation, requires special design and construction. It is now under development, and will be first introduced by the Boeing 307 stratoliners that are currently in production for airline service. No other supercharged, sealed cabin commercial transport has been built in America...
Boeing and Douglas have both been working independently on commercial transport planes with pressurized cabins. As TIME said, "the Boeings will be ready for airline service before the Douglas plane."-ED. Liberals (Cont...
What gave Dr. Heiser's article a further ominous ring was the expressed theory that the wide extension of airplane travel could bring about a renewed spread of yellow fever. His suggestions for prevention of a new epidemic: 1) consultation with health authorities in the construction of transport airplanes, to eliminate possible hiding places for the carrier or its larvae, and 2) utilization by airplane passengers of inoculation facilities...