Word: beechcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief edge in Japan's intense press rivalry, but some ten other press planes, including those of the rival dailies Yomiuri, Mainichi and Sankei, also patrolled the sea last week for pictures and news breaks. In all, Japanese newspapers now own and operate more than 30 planes, from Beechcraft Twin-Bonanzas to Piper Super Cubs and helicopters...
...newsmen still gloat about a photo they got of the Rising Sun replacing the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima last summer, even though the ceremony marking the return of Japanese sovereignty ended just 15 minutes before the paper's evening deadline. As the ceremony ended, a Beechcraft took off from Iwo Jima, 775 miles south of Tokyo, and negatives were processed aboard. Another plane sped toward Iwo, received the photos by radio when the planes were 250 miles apart, then turned toward Hachijo Jima, 175 miles south of Tokyo. While still in the air, the second plane radioed...
...between two paddyfields. There are V.C. potshotters on the ground, swarms of U.S. fighters, transports, helicopters and spotter planes in the air. "Our major hazard," complains Chief Pilot Ed Dearborn, "is overcrowded airways, not the enemy." So far, the CAS has lost only one plane, a small Beechcraft that crashed while landing in the prop wash of a big transport...
Despite such problems, a furious remodeling program has added manicured new gardens to the academy, as well as indoor plumbing for the six guest bungalows and electric light for all the buildings. An airstrip is being built nearby for the Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which...
Earlier this month, a TWA DC-9 on a proper IFR approach to the Dayton airport collided with a twin-engine Beechcraft being flown under VFR on a bright, cloudless day. All 25 aboard the jet and the pilot of the private plane died. A few days later, an American Airlines jet flying IFR toward Newark Airport narrowly missed a small plane flying VFR in the same area...