Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already in the airplane manufacturing business through General Aviation Corp.'s ownership of Fokker Aircraft Corp., and its control of Pittsburgh Metal Airplane Co. Last week's transaction put G. M. into the transport field. President Harris M. Hanshue of Western Air did not confirm the rumor that G. M.'s 24% stock holding would give it control of the Western Air Line. Nevertheless, observers saw in the arrangement an assured outlet for General Motors (Fokker) planes, possibly a bitter struggle between G. M. and Ford Motor Co. for air supremacy...
...plane is intended for training purposes, and will be used for members who have not yet passed their license tests. Courses will be given by Qualified transport pilots. The Club also owns another plane, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is used for pleasure flights...
...Instrument Co. Inc., a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc., which gave rise to the present development and the formation of Merrill Aircraft Co. Also associated with him are Thomas A. Morgan, president of Sperry Gyroscope Co. (N. A. A. subsidiary), Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, president of Eastern Air Transport...
Wilbur's Switch? To reach its decision, the Senators took much testimony. Robert Giffen Stewart, president of Standard Oil of Indiana's big subsidiary, Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. was dead against any tariff, as well he might be since his company is one of the biggest importers of gasoline. Senator Tydings of Maryland was also opposed. He said a tariff would cost the U. S. people "at least $980,000,000 a year." Senator Tydings probably also had in mind the fact that when an experimental shipment of Soviet oil was lately made to the U. S. it arrived...
Cruising speed of 125 m, p, h. for transport planes is considered creditable. Last week Bowen Air Lines Inc. declared it would operate a passenger service between Fort Worth, Tex. and Washington, D. C. with planes that cruise at 175 m. p. h. and have a top speed of 230 m. p. h. The schedule, if fulfilled, would be fastest in the world (1,210 mi. in 7 hr.). The planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered...