Word: beechcraft
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...spent the morning at the private air terminal, watching 747 s rumble and squeal down the runway like the sows at the ranch, flouting nature by moving so much weight so fast. A handsome, twinengine Beechcraft Aztec wheeled out of a hanger, its tall pilot walking behind it in the drizzle. He was dark with a bulky, wool sweater, and brown pants that tapered down to pointed shoes. He had a Gallic look, a black lock folded back from forehead like a bird's wing. I made my approach. He grinned slightly and motioned to the co-pilot's seat...
...toughly worded statement read on prime-time television in South Africa, Prime Minister P.W. Botha announced the expulsion of several members of the American mission in Pretoria for "aerial espionage." A grim-faced Botha told South Africans that a twin-engine Beechcraft turboprop used by U.S. Am bassador William B. Edmondson had been "converted for use as a spy plane by the installation of an aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some...
Reggie Jackson, 32, outfielder, New York Yankees. The baseball millionaire chooses to invest in "tangibles," including a Volkswagen dealership in Canoga Park, Calif., a condominium project in Reno, a twin-engine Beechcraft plane, and five antique cars. Jackson advises friends: "Start building a cash reserve. And then buy things, things you can touch...
...color TVs, pocket calculators, tape decks and radios. Prices-$460 for a Sony 17-in. portable color TV, vs. $634.95 at Foley's department store in Houston-attract a different kind of professional smuggler, the chiveras. They sometimes hire pilots, who are occasionally smugglers themselves, and twin-engine Beechcraft "Beech 18" airplanes with the noses extended 6 ft. to haul more cargo...
...British Prime Minister James Callaghan, and another in September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard Air Force One as a "personal friend to the President." Gregory made his twin-engined Beechcraft available to ferry Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, to a wedding in Fayetteville, N.C., in December. Trinkets from such encounters line Gregory's walls...