Word: gerhard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft with head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker, technical chief of General Motors Corp.'s aviation division, visiting at Roosevelt Field, L. I., ran across Miss Luba Phillips, a Russian pilot, the first woman he ever taught to fly. A reunion! They should have a fly together! Her monocoupe sport plane was on the sidelines. In they jumped with Designer Fokker at the controls, up and around they darted in joyful banks, slips, spins and curleycues, all beautifully executed, all less than 500 ft. from the ground. When they landed, a Department of Commerce inspector approached. "Where," he asked, "is your license?" Mr. Fokker...
Roald Amundsen was the name of a 15-ton, one-sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
...Chicago, one Victor von Gerhard secured a bride by mail, then sued for divorce. Charges...
...wrote von Gerhard from Texas that she would return and slay...