Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight of stairs. It also has the world's most powerful airplane engines, four 1,500-h.p. twin-row, 14-cyl. Wright-Cyclones, any two of which will keep it aloft. At half power, they will fly the Atlantic Clipper, with 40 passengers plus 7,000 lb. of freight, 3,550 miles from New York to Southampton at 155 m.p.h. Every passenger will have a bed, converted from...
...twin tail of the Lockheed 14H-resembling from the rear a letter H with two vertical tail fins and rudders attached to a wide horizontal stabilizer-is designed to increase controllability and stability in flight. Savoia-Marchetti, Sikorsky. Consolidated, Handley Page. Mitsubishi all have models with similar twin tails. Knowing that if "flutter"-vibration so violent that it shakes metal like a piece of cloth -developed anywhere it would be in the tail structure, Lockheed engineers and Chief Test Pilot Marshall Headle worked for months to eliminate the possibility, finally satisfied themselves and the B. A. C. that they...
...satisfied was Royal Dutch Airlines (K. L. M.). which in ordering eleven new Lockheeds insisted on a better aerodynamic balance in the twin tail-and got it. Lockheed, proud of its $100,000, 250-m.p.h. ship, is now adding a static balance similar to that on K. L. M.'s to all 14H models. Only eight of this model have so far been delivered (all to Northwest Airlines) but the 5½-acre Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif., just enlarged after a record year's business ($4,750,000), has more than $6,000,000 in unfilled orders...
George VI had been up once before as King (90 miles from Windsor to Martlesham Heath) when last week he stepped into his scarlet and blue twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. From Sandringham he flew 60 miles to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to inspect, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of the nation's military aviation colleges. Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham. Said British dispatches afterward: "The nation breathed easier tonight when it learned over the wireless that King George had completed safely in blustery conditions his return flight...
With an 80-m.p.h. wind blowing and other scheduled flights out of Newark canceled three hours before, Mr. Bane, Philip King-a Maritime Commission worker-a steward, a co-pilot and Pilot Fred Jones took off in a twin-motored Douglas at 8:30 p.m. Aboard were 510 gallons of gasoline, sufficient for 1,000 miles' cruising. This was fortunate, for, instead of flying the 222 miles to Washington, during the next six hours Mr. Bane & company flew 600 miles in circles...