Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own planes, especially with the Lear automatic pilot, the Lear automatic direction finder and the Lear omnirange navigational system. Fortnight ago, in Hamburg, Bill Lear got an even better idea. Why not be the first postwar private flyer to go to Moscow and show off U.S. equipment...
...between 18% and 50% higher than 1955's first three months. ¶ In the aircraft industry, rising development costs on new planes clipped 28% from Douglas earnings, brought them down to a net of $5,113,000. But as more and more businessmen took to the air, Cessna Aircraft Co. became undisputed king of the small plane makers, with a sales jump of 45% to $33 million in the past six months. Cessna's commercial business alone was currently running at more than double the 1955 rate, big enough to boost first-half earnings about 60% to some...
...campaign tour of western Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson left Minneapolis in a Beechcraft Twin-Bonanza, followed by his entourage distributed among an Aero Commander, a Beechcraft Bonanza and a Cessna 180. Two mornings later, a Stratoliner landed at Minneapolis with Estes Kefauver, his right hand black and blue from handshaking in New Hampshire, the Granite State. It was the first time during the young campaign that the two leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have been in the same state at the same time. In their contest for the March 20 Minnesota primary, Stevenson flew high last week; Kefauver never...
...powered basic trainer, the Air Force hopes to save money by sharply reducing the flight hours necessary to qualify a cadet for supersonic fighters and bombers. Flight cadets will drop 90 hours of prop training in North American's T-28 trainer, take the stick of the Cessna jet after only 40 hours of basic piston-engine flight in Beech's Mentor (T-34. In the T-37, instructor and student sit side by side instead of tandem. With 150 hours in the T-37, the student can step up to Lockheed's T-33, quickly graduate...
Though it created the T-37 as a purely military jet, Cessna is well aware that it may also have the prototype of the first U.S. private jet plane. By removing the present gas tank from the fuselage and carrying gas in wing tanks, the T-37 can be easily converted into a four-passenger plane. The plane can take off from a 2,500-ft. runway, fly at a top speed of 400 m.p.h., yet land at the comparatively low speed of 80 m.p.h. When Cessna gets into peak production of the plane, it expects to be turning them...