Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a series of load tests, Explorer Archbold, who holds a private license, plans to fly his ship to Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, to see if the two Wasp motors can take it off the water at that 7,740-ft. altitude. Heretofore no plane has ever taken off from water higher than 6,225-ft. Lake Tahoe in California. In New Guinea, where rich, 30-year-old Explorer Archbold plans to fly via Pan American's bases across the Pacific, he hopes to be able to land on and take off from a lake 11,000 ft. high. Last...
...such criticisms Pilots Merrill & Lambie presently made the best answer-another faultless crossing of the Atlantic. Laden with photographs of the Coronation, 15,000 "covers" and stamps for philatelists, they took off from Southport in his Wasp-motored Lockheed Electro. last week three days after reaching Croydon. Flying blind most of the way over the ocean, Merrill & Lambie dropped down at Squantum, Mass., to check their gas supply, immediately dashed on to Floyd Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American...
Patrol Squadron VP-6's new flying boats are called PBY-1 patrol bombers. With 1,100-h. p. Twin Row Wasp engines, retractable wing pontoons and clipper lines, they are the first twelve of 176 such ships ordered by the Navy from Consolidated Aircraft Corp...
...Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast...
Like many good and patient men, Cordell Hull has played in good luck. In spite of his weakness in subordinates, when his chance came he had in Sumner Welles -wasp-waisted, double-breasted, Groton and Harvard, snobbish, capable and stiff-about the best man he could have had to take to Buenos Aires. In the long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years...