Word: tryed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford freight plane, powered by a single 600-h. p. water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine. Except for the long snout-like motor and four-bladed propeller, the ship bears many outward resemblances to the tri-motored Ford transport...
Vulture. Debonair Prince George Valentine Bibesco of Rumania, president of Federation Aeronautique Internationale, took off from Paris for Saigon, Indo-China last fortnight with two pilots and a mechanic. Their plane, the Count da la Vaulx* was a Ford tri-motor equipped with kitchen and bed, loaned them by King Carol. Their purpose: ostensibly to hunt big game; actually to compile a first-hand report on the redtape of international flying for presentation at the next meeting of the Federation. As the plane approached Allahabad, India last week a vulture flew into one of the propellers. About two hours later...
Thus a year ago spoke lanky, bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, vice president of Stout Metal Airplane Co., designer and builder of Ford tri-motors (TIME, May 26). Airmen knew that Designer...
...Interior, last week was appointed Minister of Public Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast...
Passenger. In a Tri-State Airways plane enroute to Detroit, James Thomas Mangan, Chicago adman, leaped from his seat, grappled with the pilot, scattered money to the wind, had to be restrained by other passengers from jumping out. At a Detroit hospital, whither he was taken, physicians talked of derangement by "airsickeness...