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...Congratulations! You are the winner of a weekend retreat in the Bahamas. Enclosed please find your champagne-flight boarding pass." So began an apparent promotional letter from Puno Aero Tours to some 200 seemingly lucky Floridians. On the appointed day, the letter continued, the winners would be picked up for a ride to the airport in limousines. They were indeed picked up -- by federal marshals masquerading as chauffeurs. The would-be vacationers, handcuffed within moments after climbing into the cars, were all fugitives, wanted on charges ranging from embezzlement and grand theft to rape. Puno Aero Tours was a front...
Trouble struck Lockheed's TriStar just after the first of the 300-passenger jets rolled off the Palmdale, Calif, assembly line. Production temporarily stopped in February 1971, when Britain's Rolls-Royce, the prime engine supplier, went bankrupt. The British government took over Rolls-Royce's aero-engine division, but demanded proof that Lockheed was financially sound before providing the equipment. Lockheed was indeed in trouble, but Congress approved a controversial $250 million loan guarantee for the company. The first TriStar was delivered to Eastern Air Lines in April 1972, about six months later than scheduled...
DIED. Frank Malina, 69, pioneering American aeronautical engineer whose early work on solid-fuel rockets helped the U.S. land the first man on the moon; of a heart attack; in Paris. Malina and the late aero-dynamicist Theodore von Karman helped found what became the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1930s to research high-altitude rockets. During World War II, the two scientists developed solid-fuel rockets to give propeller-driven aircraft faster takeoffs. In 1945, they helped design one of the U.S.'s first high-altitude sounding rockets, the WAC Corporal. Malina left...
...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...
...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...