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...GOVERNMENT TREND TOWARD SCRAPPING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF AIRCRAFT THAT CANNOT BE SOLD AT PRESENT ESTABLISHED PRICES IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND MUST BE STOPPED : c-45s, c-46s, c-47s, c-60s, c-78s, BT-13s, BEECHCRAFT, AT-6s AND ALL TRAINERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money and talent than it has, TACA can draw from big, rich Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which owns 29% of TACA stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jungle Warfare | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Thin High Air. Like the barnstormers of the 1920s, their pilots have been flying light single-engined planes, edging them over the Hump by instinct and seat-of-the-pants navigation. Toughest route is that flown by Mountain States Aviation, Inc., whose one single-engined Beechcraft biplane has been successfully making the 286-mile loop from Denver through northwestern Colorado since July 24. On each trip it must fly through five mountain passes higher than 9,000 feet (highest: Corona Pass, 11,680 ft.). Other lines now operating are Massey & Ransom, and the Pueblo Air Services. Colorado Airlines, Inc. operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: CAB Goes West | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

July 28-Left 1:30 p.m. on Beechcraft No. 2 and scouted jungle for three hours. No success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...just learned that the Defense Plant Corp. had okayed an $800,000-odd contract for factory-sized additions to his barn. With this money-plus all or part of the 30% cash advance on his Army contract-Kennedy hopes that by Sept. 1, the first Globe-built Beechcraft will roll out the factory doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: War Baby | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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