Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...near possessions in ten hours. Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...
...Recommitted a bill to allow railroads to transport mail by motor...
...laying out the nation's passenger airlines have not yet devised any rite for the opening of a new line comparable to the railroad rite of Driving the Golden Spike.∙At the opening last week of one more new artery of air travel-Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular, pipe-smoking Frederic...
...topped Alleghenies have been the chief obstacle to a direct air passenger service between New York and Chicago. Last week National Air Transport, doubtless spurred by the opening of Transcontinental & Western Air's coast-to-coast line (TIME, Nov. 3), announced passenger service to begin Dec. 1 over its radio-marked mail route from New York via Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago. In trimotored Fords, streamlined and otherwise "cleaned-up" to cruise at 125 m.p.h., passengers and mail will make the westward flight in eight hours. Boosted along by prevailing winds, the eastbound planes should take only...
Meeting its sister company, Boeing Air Transport (both subsidiaries of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.) at Chicago, N. A. T.'s new service completes another through passageway for transcontinental passengers. The California-bound traveler reaches Chicago by early evening in ample time to board Boeing's night mail plane to the coast-total flying schedule 28½ hr. But unless the mail load is light, in which case a maximum of four passengers might be taken, the passenger must wait overnight in Chicago for the morning transport, arriving in San Francisco the morning after that. When enough travelers appear...