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...every man would fly around in his own plane almost as easily as he drove his car. The boom soon collapsed; private planes were not only high priced, but most owners found them impractical because of their short range, slow speed and high maintenance cost. Such planemakers as Piper, Cessna and Beech then smartly went after the new corporate market. The first purchases of many corporations had been war-surplus planes ranging from light trainers to C-47s and two-engine attack bombers. But most corporations found them either so costly to operate or so unsuited to their needs that...
...Trainer. To Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co., the Air Force awarded a contract to develop the first jet-powered primary training plane. Powered by two French Turbomeca engines the trainer will have a top speed of more than 403 m.p.h. Cessna expects to have it ready for its first flight in September...
...father's partner in the operation of a 22,400-acre spread west of the Pecos River. He was married, had a three-year-old daughter, was about to become a father again. He seemed calm as he left Sweetwater's airport in his four-passenger Cessna 170 at 5:30 one morning this week...
...clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery and aerial rocket fire...
Better Bird Dog. Cessna Aircraft Co. flight-tested a two-passenger plane powered by Boeing's small turboprop engine, the world's first turboprop light plane. A piston-powered model of the plane, the "Bird Dog" has been widely used in Korea on observation missions. The turboprop version, which has a cruise rating of 175 h.p., is lighter than earlier models, and has somewhat longer range and can operate on all grades and ranges of fuel, a big advantage in combat zones...