Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discuss proposed revisions in the air commerce regulations. The airplane manufacturers section of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce pleading for greater liberality to relieve the manufacturers' marketing distress, petitioned: I) that a student (meaning a prospective plane purchaser) be allowed to receive dual flight instruction from any transport pilot without a permit or physical examination; 2) that the cost of medical examination for private license be cut; 3) that the department resume its former practice of inspecting and test-flying aircraft at the respective plants instead of at only eight designated stations in the U. S.; 4) that...
...Corp. and N. A. T. No passenger line can expect to make money without a mail contract. The Watres Air Mail Bill was intended to combine the two services wherever possible. For those reasons Aviation Corp. last week yielded its Cleveland-Chicago passenger service (Universal Division) to National Air Transport, which carries the mail. N. A. T., which recently acquired Stout Air Lines (its sister subsidiary in United Aircraft & Transport), immediately placed in service a new fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention...
Smith's Record. Dean Smith, crack pilot of National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
...Designer Vincent J. Burnelli at Keyport, N. J. has long been working on a "flying wing" for heavy commercial transport. Germany's four-motored Junkers 6-38 is sometimes called a "flying wing...
Year and a half ago the Post Office Department designated Newark Municipal Airport as official eastern terminus for the transcontinental airmail. National Air Transport, operator of the New York-Cleveland-Chicago route, insisted the field was unfit for night landings of heavily loaded Douglas and Boeing ships, refused to move its base from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. While a three-cornered dispute was waged, New Yorkers continued to wait an extra 90 min. for airmail to be transported from distant Hadley Field to Manhattan's postoffices. Last week there was an air pageant of jubilation above Newark...