Word: b26
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lory's adoring eyes Cash is something of a Neo-Renaissance prince of a man. He flies his own remodeled B26, made his first million before he was 30, and can discuss equally knowledgeably the merits of Italian ham or the life of Buddha. However, when Grant Austen learns that he panicked too soon on Suffolk Moulding, and that McCall is about to unload the company at a $1,000,000 profit, he sees Cash only as a king-size heel. Before the gold dust settles. Cash gets a chance to prove his good faith, and does...
...calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought, could have been avoided...