Word: beechcrafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Greyhound bus driver who admires sports cars, United Airlines Captain Marion ("Pat") Boling, 43, cherished a quiet dream. In 1949 four-engine Pilot Boling watched the late Bill Odom lift a small Beechcraft Bonanza off a Honolulu airport on a nonstop flight that ended 4,957 miles away in New Jersey. Eying the light plane's performance, Boling resolved some day to better the mark. Last week he did. Flying an orange Bonanza from Manila, Pat Boling took a broad arc over the Pacific, finally came in for a landing in Pendleton, Ore. after flying alone...
...dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner's order feathered one engine of a Beechcraft to test his ability to handle the plane in a single-engine emergency. Something went wrong; the men died in the crash in an Arkansas cornfield...
...when Author (The Era of Trujillo) Galindez waved goodbye to a student in front of a New York subway entrance and then vanished, Gerry Murphy, a onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore., was waiting at out-of-the-way Zahns Airport near Amityville, L.I., his rented twin-engined Beechcraft D18 outfitted with extra gas tanks and ready to go. Ernst checked out Murphy's mysterious journey: take-off just before midnight, gassing in the early morning at Lantana Airport near West Palm Beach, followed by the crucial lapse of from seven to nine hours before he put down again...
...Witness. Because Ernst was openly working for Trujillo, many witnesses greeted him with suspicious silence. Among them: Air Force Sergeant Harold French, an old friend of Murphy's, who helped install the Beechcraft's extra gas tanks and was with Murphy at Zahns Airport until noon on the fatal day. Murphy told French about the trip in detail, and French told the FBI ("Gerry said that gasoline would be available to him at Monte Cristi in 5-gal. cans...
...discover a serious threat to second-term ambitions. Pennsylvania-born Hart is, like Potter, a wounded World War II veteran; he was hit by D-day mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...