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...scheduled flight to Lisbon with mail & express, in 14 months a regular passenger service. More, the newborn line expected to do it non stop and pare Pan Am's eastbound flying time from 23 to 20½ hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h. (cruising speed) S-44s will carry 16 passengers, a crew...
After work and on Sundays, Sikorsky & helpers had puttered for months over a strange, spindle-shanked machine in a corner of United Aircraft Corp.'s Vought-Sikorsky plant, across the road from the municipal airport at Bridgeport, Conn. Last week overalled mechanics trundled it on the field and a crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny...
Satisfied that he had the answer to vertical-lift flight, Igor Sikorsky was also satisfied that he needed only a new engine to make his machine go high in the air, travel long distances at better than 100 miles an hour. Already under way in the Vought-Sikorsky plant is a new helicopter with a 200-h.p. engine...
...report, Export will begin with nonscheduled operation of its one plane-a Consolidated 28-between New York and Rome, with inter mediate stops at the Azores, Lisbon and Barcelona. Full passenger, mail and express operation will come later when Export gets the first of the three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky S-44s which it has ordered from United Aircraft Corp...
...Beisel, chief engineer of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Company, has been appointed lecturer on Aeronautic Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, the University announced Saturday...