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Thus a year ago spoke lanky, bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, vice president of Stout Metal Airplane Co., designer and builder of Ford tri-motors (TIME, May 26). Airmen knew that Designer...
...Interior, last week was appointed Minister of Public Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast...
Passenger. In a Tri-State Airways plane enroute to Detroit, James Thomas Mangan, Chicago adman, leaped from his seat, grappled with the pilot, scattered money to the wind, had to be restrained by other passengers from jumping out. At a Detroit hospital, whither he was taken, physicians talked of derangement by "airsickeness...
...airplane division was inviting its users to turn in their ships for conversion into single-motored jobs, with a 600 h. p. Cyclone or Hornet engine to replace the three 200 h. p. Whirlwinds. Supposed result: increased payload and speed. Supposed significance : that after five years of tri-motor production the company had found its line of work misdirected...
...rumor reached William B. Mayo, Ford's chief of aeronautical engineering, there lost most of its fever. The facts: Ford is developing, for freight service only, a transport about the same size as the tri-motor but with a single large engine. It will be slower than the tri-motors, which are intended for passenger lines, but will be cheaper to operate, because high speed is not essential and because only one pilot will be needed. The Ford company did advise owners of tri-motors that when their old planes are superseded by newer and speedier types of Ford...