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Word: aero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antique-airplane buffs or hobby plane builders. Quite a few also tend to be affiliated with or retired from commercial aviation: some 25 airline pilots live at Cameron and commute-by air, of course-to their jobs at San Francisco International and other area airports. Illinois' Casa de Aero, a 45-home park 38 miles from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, was developed by three airline pilots especially for families like theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Home Is Where the Hangar Is | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...both work and play, and counter some of the expense by taking a tax deduction for business use. Erie Homeowner Francis Banderet, a construction and farm equipment dealer, sees to his far-flung clients' needs by plane. Robert McDaniels, a retired airline pilot who lives in Naper Aero, near Chicago, owns four planes. One is a 1917 wooden-frame Jenny; another is a two-seater he uses to give flying lessons at a nearby airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Home Is Where the Hangar Is | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Goose belongs at present to the Aero Club of Southern California, a non-profit aviation group. Early next year it is scheduled for exhibition by the Wrather Corp., which also owns the Queen Mary, in a huge geodesic dome at Long Beach. That sounds fine, a dignified last berth for a plane too noble to break up for scrap. But here is what tickles the short hairs on the back of the neck: some time this summer, Wrather executives plan to taxi the Goose, under its own mighty power, to the dome site. The pilot in charge will have strict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Goose Lives! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Hotel in the Bahamas, the TV station in Las Vegas, the ranches, Football Today and 3,000 inactive mining claims. Summa has even been able to unload the Spruce Goose without having to break it in pieces, as once threatened. This week the plane will be given to the Aero Club of Southern California, which will put it on display in Long Beach next to the once glamorous Queen Mary ocean liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Summa Comes Back from Debacle | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...years since its founding as the Pacific Aero Products Co., the Seattle planemaker has developed and nurtured a reputation for innovation, reliability and plain downright engineering excellence that is unmatched in the industry. Indeed, in an age when much of American business seems to have slipped into a search for quick profits and is marked by shoddy workmanship, the 104,000 engineers, designers, draftsmen, machinists, executives and salesmen of Boeing stand out as proof that, over the long haul, the only lasting standard of value in any market is quality itself. Said Air Force Secretary Hans Mark of the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of the Air | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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