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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson. When Pilot C. J. Zimmerman, Floyd Whalton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Metal Hull | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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