Word: trimotored
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...character who escapes from a film and is wandering around New Jersey in a pith helmet? And what of Gil Shepherd, the actor who created him (also played by Daniels, who is, to borrow one of Tom's favorite words, "fetching" in both roles). In two shakes of a trimotor's tail the West Coast crowd is on the scene, trying to hush things up. This of course puts Gil in place to rival Tom for Cecilia's affections. If fictive Tom reflects innocence in its purest form, Gil embodies it in the hilariously impure form of actor...
...however, the domestic field had become too crowded to suit Trippe, so he abandoned air transportation within the U.S. and formed Pan American. The new company concentrated on international routes; its earliest Key West to Havana run carried just eight passengers in trimotor Fokkers. The airline quickly expanded its routes throughout Latin America and the Pacific. Charles A. Lindbergh, fresh from his solo flight across the Atlantic, soon became a key Pan Am adviser. "Lindbergh," Trippe always maintained, "was our greatest pilot and navigator...
...bizarre coincidence, it was 50 years to the day-Nov. 28, 1929-since Commander Richard Byrd and three companions struggled across the region's perilous mountains, to complete the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford trimotor called the Floyd Bennett. Flight 901 was scheduled to be far more comfortable, cruising at 35,000 ft., well above any turbulence, descending only in spots to 6,000 ft. for a closer look at the scenery. All the while, the cabin crew kept the sightseers plied with plentiful food and drink. Lunch offered a choice of Tournedos Rossini...
...months and 131 million miles, Boeing's 727 won nothing but praise from pilots, passengers and airlines. The first American-made medium-range jet -and the first three-engine airliner the U.S. has built since the famed Ford Trimotor-it handles easily, skims like a swallow in and out of small airports, and until last August had logged an exceptional record for reliability...
...promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed the inevitability of the SST-a telling argument to an audience that included many whose careers date back to the trimotor Ford...