Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was a Transcontinental & Western airliner which had taken off from Camden, N. J. in perfect mechanical condition with ten passengers, two pilots and a hostess, bound for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane...
...that point he was spotted by another TWA pilot, Capt. A. M. Wilkins, flying in from the west at 700 ft. ready to land as soon as Bohnet was down. Wilkins saw the silvery monoplane about three miles ahead and 200 ft. lower in level flight. To his surprise he overtook it fast. When only a mile behind, Wilkins cut his speed in order not to pass Bohnet. Simultaneously he noticed that Bohnet was having trouble. Though the air was clear, with no turbulence whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back...
Since then there have been eleven fatal crashes of scheduled passenger transports, first and most significant of which was that of a TWA Douglas at Atlanta, Mo. in which Senator Bronson Cutting was killed (TIME, May 13, 1935). This disaster evoked from the Senators surviving colleagues a torrent of denunciation against the airlines and an investigation which has continued 20 months...
...Francisco is served by only one airline, United, which flies in from New York and also operates up & down the coast from San Diego to Vancouver. TWA, which now flies from New York to Los Angeles, and once flew from there to San Francisco, has long wanted to start an off-line spur from Albuquerque to San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce backed the scheme, but United naturally opposed it. Under Section 15 of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the I. C. C. has power to authorize new lines, but. apparently may not permit a new service...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...