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...Brazil, the chief rebels were Major Haroldo Coimbra Veloso and Captain José Lameirão, a pair of air force officers. Commandeering a Beechcraft, they flew from Rio to a set of airstrips well up the Amazon, took the strips by pulling rank on the noncoms in command, and signed up some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat...
...sold stock to raise $750,000, got a 20-year lease on 2½ acres around his old repair shop, set to work on the Skymotive Terminal. It includes a 400-ft.-long hangar (space rental and normal services: $575 a month for a DC-3, $55 for a Beechcraft Bonanza), a modern two-story terminal building with lounge, office space ($28.50 to $80 a month), conference room, flight-planning room, kitchen and bath facilities...
...plane field World War I Planemaker Morane-Saulnier has built a sleek, four-place light jet called the Paris which can buzz along at 400 m.p.h. serve either as a military liaison plane or a highspeed executive transport. Though only one prototype has been built, U.S. Light-Plane-Maker Beechcraft, no novice in the field, is so impressed with the Paris that it is showing it around the U.S., will build for flying businessmen if there are enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York...
...accompanied by two Air Force pilots and James J. Rowley, Chief of the White House Secret Service Detail, was obviously pleased by the flight. The Bug was tailed by three agents, armed with pistols and Tommy guns, in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza. Said Ike: "A lovely plane...
...ridiculous would I be-if I jeopardized my salary for what they claim I took?" There was also a squabble over the Get-Together Club, an organization of News distributors that Annenberg had formed in 1945 and which, two years later, had presented Annenberg with a $7,975 Beechcraft Bonanza monoplane...