Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laboring over the cruel mountain "Hump Route" from India, a U.S. transport plane drew near its China base with 5,000 precious pounds of mail from home. The pilot, Lieut. Roy Thomas, noticed a scudding cloud ahead. Then...
...flying line, the two newly arrived Marauder pilots climbed out. They were blue-uniformed girls of the British Air Transport Auxiliary...
Behncke protests that cramming 1,000 Ib. of added payload into commercial planes, most of which are five or six years old, would be highly risky for pilots and passengers. CAB engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion...
...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
...politely declined to be drawn into the argument. It refused to designate any company as "biggest," emphasized that comparisons, either in weight or number, are unfair. Reason: a complicated Flying Fortress is more difficult to build than a heavier transport, counts no more, numerically, than a "flying jeep." No figures could take into consideration many an other factor, such as design changes, new models, experimentation. But of one thing WPB was proudly certain: the high-geared U.S. aircraft industry will build more than 100,000 planes this year, compared...