Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the wreck of the Titanic, the crash of Transcontinental Air Transport's City of Sau Francisco in New Mexico last week was relatively one of the world's great commercial disasters. It was the first bad one on a U. S. Trans- continental air line. The great trimotored Ford with five passengers and crew of three flew west from Albuquerque, N. Mex., into an electrical storm and oblivion...
...Transportation, however, the city does not lack. It has many routes and uses them. Universal Air Lines carries passengers between Cleveland and Chicago, runs a taxi and hopping service at the Cleveland airport, has an aviation school there. Continental Air Lines, Universal subsidiary, operates a mail and passenger line between Cleveland and Louisville, by way of Akron, Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Colonial Western Air Lines, Universal affiliate through Aviation Corp., flies mail and occasionally passengers by way of Buffalo to Albany, where connections are made with the Canadian Colonial Airways New York-Montreal line. Thompson Aeronautical Corp. carries passengers...
...promotion was one of merit, prime Hoover administrative policy. In the Department of Commerce, Mr. Young created the present system of enforcing air commerce rules, inspection, license of civil aircraft, licensing of pilots and mechanics. Last week, before his promotion, he announced new, strict rules for transport pilots. After Sept. 1 they must get their licenses renewed every six months. They will get renewals only by reproving their ability at trick takeoffs and landings. They must have flown at least ten hours solo in the types of planes for which they are licensed. And they must be able...
United Aircraft & Transport immediately requested the Army Air Corps to test continuous refueling flights over the transcontinental air mail route. The Corps complied, appointed Captain Ira Eaker (Question Mark refueling flight chief) and First Lieut. B. S. Thompson as pilots...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., 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...