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This decision, made last March, was not the first of its kind for Hank Myers, who would fly the President to Key West for a brief vacation this week. As a command pilot, Lieut. Colonel Henry Tift Myers, holder of a "Green Ticket"* in the Air Transport Command, has the authority to clear his plane to any destination under any flight plan he elects. As personal pilot for the President, Hank Myers' decisions are not always easy...
Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
...every sense. . . . This must be as obvious in Washington as it is in Nanking." A hint that other U.S. help might be on the way came last week in a dispatch from Nanking describing negotiations for purchase by China of an undisclosed amount of munitions and 600 surplus transport planes from...
...Aircraft Co. had poured $13,400,000 of engineering and research and $1,500,000 of testing into the DC-6, concurred. Until the trouble was found, said Douglas, "all further passenger flying in these airplanes should be discontinued." It was the first time that a whole line of transport planes (there were 75 in service) had been grounded without a governmental order...
Whitehall Circle. Some of Cripps's best Labor friends became members of his official family. Cripps supervises four ministries directly: Board of Trade, Supply, Transport, and Fuel & Power. Of the four ministers only Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, is not a socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful...