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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...
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...
...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...