Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...seized the huge craft as enemy property, renamed her Leviathan, rebuilt her as a troop transport. In ten trips she carried 95,000 A. E. F. troops to France, brought 80,000 home. Awarded to the U. S. under the Versailles Treaty, she was reconditioned as an oil-burner in 1922 at a cost of $8,000,000. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1923 by the U. S. Shipping Board, she turned up huge losses, spent much of her time at her Hoboken pier...
...Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce did not think it necessary, ordered him not to. Result...
...without doing anything. Last year the onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within the Nation's borders but beyond them. Out he went to Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed airplane, the windows had to be replaced with duralumin sheeting. Conspicuous atop the cabin was a big loop aerial...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...