Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted only a stately parade of the squadrons down the hazy Hudson. Except for a few power dives and dog fights over Floyd Bennett Field, the only aerobatics of the afternoon took place inland over New Jersey. A patrol of pursuit planes dove at the World-Telegram-Eastern Air Transport's "flying press box," shooed it further off the course...
...past year, said Secretary Young, transport planes flew 40,080,000 miles, carried 418,000 passengers, 9,100,000 Ib. of mail, 3,250,000 Ib. of express. Forty-four companies, operating 125 routes, fly 650 aircraft valued at $14,000,000. In miscellaneous (other than transport) operations, 2,200,000 persons flew during the year...
...coiled in angles and echelons over cities. In the evenings it disintegrated, scattered down to rest for the night. For the first time, the Army had mustered its entire air strength for maneuvers. The 672 green-bodied, yellow-winged planes-205 pursuit, 335 observation, 51 attack, 36 bombardment, 45 transport-composed the greatest peacetime concentration of aircraft in U. S. history...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
...Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest arrived on the scene as mediator and persuaded explosive "Tony" to withdraw as spokesman in favor of more rational James M. Schoonmaker Jr., president and general manager of General Aviation Corp. (Fokker organization). Outcome of the final conferences, attended by officials of the transport lines affected, was this program...