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...small, private twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, more susceptible to wind conditions than the big airliners, landed on the same strip without difficulty...
...past month alone. A typical model, the six-seater 24D, which retails for $863,000, has a 1,884-mile range and cruises at 550 m.p.h. Lockheed's $2,000,000 JetStar stresses low operating costs, as does North American Rockwell's Sabre 75A ($1.8 million). Beechcraft does not produce its own jet, but markets the comfortable British Beechcraft Hawker BH-125 600, which sells for $592,000. As for Grumman, it sold 22 Gulfstreams in 1972, compared with twelve in 1971. And, says a happily harried Grumman vice president, Jack Rettaliata...
Stage Line. Now the CAB is trying a different approach to serve smaller communities: strengthening the nation's 3,200 "third-level" carriers-the air taxis and commuter lines that usually fly smaller planes-Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcraft and the like. The third-levels fall into two groups: the 105 lines that provide scheduled round-trip service at least five days a week out of particular communities, and the 3,100 or so that offer less frequent scheduled service or simply hire themselves out irregularly for a motley of chores. The 105 scheduled lines observe stricter federal performance and safety...
...small U.S. Army Beechcraft U-8 bobbed in and out of broken clouds one day last month, the four men aboard caught sight of the railroad tracks and the grassy airstrip that were supposed to mark their destination: the town of Kars in eastern Turkey, 20 miles from the Soviet border. They put down, but as they taxied toward the terminal, the men spotted what looked startlingly like a red star on a nearby helicopter. "It must be a Turkish red crescent," muttered Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer, 57, head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey...
...pressure on North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course on a flight in Turkey and was forced down by MIGs in Soviet Armenia (TIME...