Fokker

Lolling at their ease amid the luxurious appointments of a ten-passenger Fokker airplane (see SCIENCE), Mr. Anthony H. G. Fokker, famed Dutch aero-engineer, and

Juan T. Trippe, youthful Vice President of the new U. S. Colonial Air Transport Corporation, set out last week to find out how swiftly a commercial aircraft could make the 300-mile run from Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba. Arrived at Havana, two hours and five minutes after leaving Miami, Mr. Fokker announced that their average speed of 144 miles an hour constituted a record for a non-stop flight of such length by a commercial airplane.

Meanwhile Mr. H. A. Bruno of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation entertained reporters by revealing one of Mr. Fokker's hobbies: "Not long ago he indulged his taste for air photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera."