Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
...pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...
...Navy likes the Wasp 1830 so much that it has ordered 200, banned their export. Last week's demonstration was in the nature of a release for U. S. commercial use. United Airlines, which sets as much store by Pratt & Whitney power plants as American Airlines does by the famed Wright Cyclones, has ordered 26 of the 1830's for its fleet of 24-passenger Douglas sleeper planes (TIME, March...
Built with great secrecy at a cost of $120,000, Hughes's low-wing monoplane is equipped with a tremendous Wasp motor, a fuselage longer than the wingspan, a curious stilt-like landing gear which folds during flight. For two days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced...
Early one morning last week in her native Brooklyn Miss Ingalls' new Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...