Word: tri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane division was inviting its users to turn in their ships for conversion into single-motored jobs, with a 600 h. p. Cyclone or Hornet engine to replace the three 200 h. p. Whirlwinds. Supposed result: increased payload and speed. Supposed significance : that after five years of tri-motor production the company had found its line of work misdirected...
...rumor reached William B. Mayo, Ford's chief of aeronautical engineering, there lost most of its fever. The facts: Ford is developing, for freight service only, a transport about the same size as the tri-motor but with a single large engine. It will be slower than the tri-motors, which are intended for passenger lines, but will be cheaper to operate, because high speed is not essential and because only one pilot will be needed. The Ford company did advise owners of tri-motors that when their old planes are superseded by newer and speedier types of Ford...
...last week Zeller and Wenzel were flying an experimental Ford tri-motor over their home field at Dearborn, Mich, in routine tests. Suddenly blue flames began to spew from two of the engines, enveloping the fuselage and wings. Zeller made a landing, but the ship nosed over, balanced for an instant, fell on its back, a blazing mass. Pilot Zeller, 26, and Mechanic Wenzel, 30, died...
Other diversions include movies in the gym, which now boasts of movietone equipment. These picture shows are presented tri-weekly. Instead of eating the evening meal in the mess hall, a cadet may receive permission to dine at the Hotel Thayer, on invitation, or he may go on picnic parties to Delafield Pond...
...they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order the agents collected a washtub full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, the Ford tri-motor piloted by Lieut. Harry Russell led by 1,763 points. Second was the Waco of John Livingston, last year's winner, to whom a second and third victory would give permanent possession of the trophy...