Word: trimotors
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Across the Atlantic. Iberia has not always flown in such balmy weather. Starting in 1927 with four noisy, German-made, trimotor planes, it made not a single peseta until 1946. After several reorganizations, the original airline went under, after serving the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war. Its successor was started in 1937 by Franco, who needed a transport service, and asked Germany's Lufthansa for help. But in World War II, when Britain and the U.S. warned Spain to cancel its agreement with Germany or lose its gasoline supplies, Franco nationalized the company, has since bought...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...
...airmen who have flown the Thunderbolt, a slick-handling job for all its weight (around 13,500-lb., about the same as an old Ford trimotor transport), this was news, good & hot. At Republic's Long Island plant, P-47 was already in production. But if the heavily armed and armored fighter is to do the job the Air Forces says it can, more room for growth is needed than there is in Republic's big, spanking-new plant...
...races proper proceeded without mishap, save for the injury of one of 13 'chute jumpers who took leave of a Ford trimotor together. The unlucky 13th landed in the grandstand, broke a leg, hurt his skull. Betty Lund, whose husband "Freddy" Lund was a flying partner of Dale ("Red") Jackson (see col. 3), stunted a taper wing Waco as if she had never heard that both men were killed doing that very thing...
Quick Trip. With seven passengers and 900 lb. of mail, a Ford trimotor of National Air Transport rode a stiff tail wind from Chicago to New York one day last week, made the 20-hr. rail trip in 4 hr. 16 min. of flight. The plane was so early arriving in Cleveland (2 hr. 6 min.) the passengers were obliged to kill an hour before flying on to Newark Airport...